silly question but, with RedHat, bad as it was, it had a utility for
checking for package updates. Does Slackware have similar utils?

is there an installation util that checks for dependancies too?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:19:33 -0500,
Liam Marshall <lsrpm@mts.net> wrote:
> silly question but, with RedHat, bad as it was, it had a utility for
> checking for package updates. Does Slackware have similar utils?

There are a number of third-party tools that can do this, namely swaret
and slapt-get. You can also roll-your-own update script with bash and
rsync.

> is there an installation util that checks for dependancies too?

I think swaret can do this, but the native Slackware package manager
does not. (This is a feature. )


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* Liam Marshall <lsrpm@mts.net> writes:

> silly question but, with RedHat, bad as it was, it had a utility
> for checking for package updates. Does Slackware have similar
> utils?

There are things like "swaret", but I like...

$ ftp ftp.slackware.com RET

....best. Sometimes I might even lash out and use wget.

> is there an installation util that checks for dependancies too?

I am _very happy_ to report... No. Or, at least, I hope not.



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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:19:33 -0500, Liam Marshall <lsrpm@mts.net> wrote:
> silly question but, with RedHat, bad as it was, it had a utility for
> checking for package updates. Does Slackware have similar utils?
>
> is there an installation util that checks for dependancies too?

Besides the mentioned tools by the other posters, there are 2 mailing lists
avaible which inform you, when new packages have arrived. You should
subscribe to them, so you don't have to run swaret or other tools every day.

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Mark Hill wrote:

> I think swaret can do this, but the native Slackware package manager
> does not. (This is a feature. )
>

right; "swaret --dep somepackage" would check for dependencies for
somepackage.

man swaret for more info.

On 2004-04-12, Mark Hill <devnull@mark.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:19:33 -0500,
> Liam Marshall <lsrpm@mts.net> wrote:
>> silly question but, with RedHat, bad as it was, it had a utility for
>> checking for package updates. Does Slackware have similar utils?
>
> There are a number of third-party tools that can do this, namely swaret
> and slapt-get. You can also roll-your-own update script with bash and
> rsync.
>

I'd like to hear more about rolling my own update script , if you don't mind.
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:56:26 GMT,
Naota Hashimoto <see@the.signature> wrote:
>
> I'd like to hear more about rolling my own update script , if you don't mind.

I like to mirror useful parts of the -current tree locally and upgrade
packages with upgradepkg from there. (E.G I may cd to the top-level
slackware package directory and type 'upgradepkg */*.tgz').

Below is the rsync script I use to mirror the parts of the tree I want,
and a bash script that checks the gpg signatures of the packages. (I
have the slackware key on my keyring.) I hope they give you some good
ideas.


### rsync-slackware-current.sh
#!/bin/sh

BASEDIR=/home/mark/src/slackware-current

cd $BASEDIR || exit

#--exclude=gnome/ \

rsync --delete-after \
--exclude=source/ \
--exclude=t/ \
--exclude=tcl/ \
--include="*/kde-i18n-en_GB*" \
--include="*/koffice-i18n-en_GB*" \
--exclude="kdei/*" --include=*/ \
-vaz \
rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ slackware/



### check-slackware-sigs.sh
#!/bin/sh

SLACKWARE_ROOT="/home/mark/src/slackware-current/slackware/"

cd $SLACKWARE_ROOT || echo "WARNING: Can't cd to Slackware directory!"

for file in */*.asc
do
if ( /usr/bin/gpg --verify $file 2>/dev/stdout | /usr/bin/grep -i bad ); then
echo;
echo "$file signature did not verify";
exit;
fi
echo -n .
done

echo


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