On 2004-05-13, PianoMan <piano.man@piano.com> wrote:
> H. Mark Little wrote:
>> I have been using "swaret", which is in the "extra" area of slackware-current.
>> This is *meant* to be able to automatically check for and resolve dependencies,
>> but for some reason, despite the configuration clearly saying to do so, it is
>> no longer working for me.
>
> I installed a new system with Slack 9.1 CDs early this week and
> everything worked fine. Then I grabbed swaret and tried to update
> everything to slackware-current. Couldn't get the new Alsa to work, and
> the new GNOME also seems to be majorly broken on my machine, bc only
> very few icons and graphics-related stuff is displayed (for example
> gThumb displays no images). I'm assuming I'm missing some deps, although
> I did run Swaret with dep resolution enabled (it said it resolved some
> deps, but it doesn't seem to resolve all of them).
>
> I have had similar problems with Swaret on one occasion in the past, so
> either I have it misconfigured (although it is not apparent to me how)
> or this tool is not-so-hot. It has always worked fine for getting
> security updates and patches within the version installed from CD.
>
> I am currently in the process of letting Garnome compile the new GNOME
> from source and we'll see how that works.
>
> PM

I think both writers should compare the changelogs for the new gnome 2.6
with what swaret did. There were several new files that swaret was
unlikely to install. There were also several files to remove that it
is even more unlikely that swaret would handle.
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