upgrading slackware with swaret

[Steve Holmes]

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It was dropped even with 10.0.  I was really sorry to see it go as
there really isn't anything else in its place.  I didn't get to do a
whole lot with it when I did use it but it looked interesting and I
thought promising.

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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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