On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:15:24 +0000, mangus wrote:

> raoul wrote:
>
>> Is anybody else unable to use the newest version of pkgtools, listed in
>> the 24jan05 Current changelog? The package is pkgtools-10.1.0-i486-2.tgz.
>>
>> When I select the Remove option, I get a rapidly scrolling list of
>> filenames, then the standard "Package Removed" message that normally
>> follows a successful package removal. However, this happens without my
>> having chosen any packages for removal.
>>
>> I had to revert to pkgtools-10.1.0-i486-1.tgz (from Nov. 2004) to be able
>> to use pkgtools.
>>
>> Note that this is different from the View problem that others have
>> previously reported with pkgtools 10.1.
>> [snip]

> there's a thread on linuxquestions slackware's forum..
> in my system I have no problem at all after upgrade
> really strange...hey this pkgtool works very fast!

It turns out the problem was due to my having a number of non-standard
package descriptions. I had compiled a lot of things from source and then
used checkinstall to install them. Checkinstall prompts you for a package
description, so I supplied some info that meant something to me but which
-- I now know -- did not follow the Slackware package standard. The latest
version of pkgtool apparently trips up on non-standard package
descriptions. I edited the descriptions to conform to the Slackware
standard, and now it works fine. As you say, it's much faster.

I think the maintainer-developer is going to issue a fix in case there are
others like me who used non-standard descriptions in their home-made
packages, or who installed other non-standard third-party packages.

For my part, I was glad to get things in conformity with fairly stringent
-- in spite of the name -- Slackware standard.