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

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:36:30 +0200
"Marco Bonetti" <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

Perfect!  Thank you!


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