upgrading slackware with swaret

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Greg,
You need a newer version of swaret. The format of the files it reads has
changed, so that will happen if you aren't using the latest version.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak said

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> Hi all slackers and everyone else.
>
> I've got a box running slackware 9.1 here, that I didn't have time to
> upgrade before, but have gotten around to wanting to upgrade it to
> slack 10.1 now. I am trying to do this with swaret 1.3.1, which came
> as an extra package in slack 9.1. My swaret.conf file is fine, since I
> used it last time to upgrade to slackware 9.1. So, I just changed the
> slackware version number in there from 9.1, to 10.1, and mounted the
> first slackware cd under /cdrom, where swaret expects to find all the
> packages, as I've configured it to do.
>
> I run
>
> swaret --update
>
> , and it compiles all the checksums, file lists, ETC, ETC, ETC, and
> everything runs just fine. Then, I do
>
> swaret --up-all -A
>
> , and swaret tells me that all my installed packages are up to date,
> which is obviously not the case. So, does anyone know what gives?
> Should I first perhaps upgrade swaret using the standard slackware
> upgradepkg tool, or is swaret simply not used to upgrade anymore? Any
> informative input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg
>
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