[slackintosh-users] Re: Upgrade.....question, observation

On 10/9/06, James Lay <jlay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
This effectively installs EVERYTHING....the bulk of which I didn't
need/want.  I guess my question regarding this is there a realistic way
to upgrade just the packages you have installed besides manually going
through and upgrading EVERY package by hand.  This install will get
waxed I can already tell (which is fine as it's just something to mess
around with), but my powerbook is a different story.  Thanks for the
assistance.


Hi James!
the command issued over there is straight taken from Slackware
original UPGRADE howto and represents the "easy way".

If you want to upgrade the "hard way" (and we all want to, we're
computer geek afterall) you have to paid a little more attention and
spend a little more time.

Go through each step as before, then when you get to the incriminated
line, do "upgradepkg /root/slackware/*/*.tgz". This way upgradepkg
will only upgrades yours installed packages.

Then do an extra step: go through the ChangeLog.txt and check out if
any of your already installed packages or its deopendencies had been
splitted, remove the obsolete package and install newer splits
accordingly. It's a bit time consuming and most of needed packages
will be spotted during runtime, but hey, it should work :-)

Another way could be using slapt-get or swaret.

ciao

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