upgrading slackware with swaret

[Gregory Nowak]

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I noticed that after Joseph's message, and located slackpkg in the
extras directory instead. Slackpkg isn't bad, except for the annoying
problem of not being able to upgrade everything all at once like you
could do with swaret. My solution is to invoke slackpkg 26 times, per
each letter of the alphabet for each group of packages
(I.E. slackware, gnome, extras, pasture). Using up-arrow with
backspace and then enter once you've typed in the next letter means
that it's not as tedious as it could be, but it's still a pain. I'm
still upgrading as I write, so we'll see what I end up with after I
reboot. The up-shot to slackpkg is that it requires far less
configuration then swaret did, but I still think I liked swaret
better then slackpkg, that maybe because I was very impressed with it
when upgrading to 9.1 the last time.
I also liked the fact that swaret could upgrade certain packages
before any others (I.E. upgrade glibc and friends, then pkgtools, then
everything else). If you're not mindful of giving the packages to
upgrade to slackpkg in that particular order, you run into problems.

Greg


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:24:24PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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.
> 

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