upgrading slackware with swaret

[Sean McMahon]

So the slackware upgrade tool won't upgrade itself?  Another reason I guess why
I like my favorate distro.
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: upgrading slackware with swaret


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> Where can you find this later version and are the dependencies being
> kept up to date? Slackware 10.0 and 10.1 do *NOT* have this utility anymore.
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> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:48:00AM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> > 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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