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Slackware drops GNOME, restores MozillaSlackware drops GNOME, restores MozillaPosted Mar 28, 2005 20:42 UTC (Mon) by cbcbcb (guest, #10350)Parent article: Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla
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Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Mar 28, 2005 21:29 UTC (Mon) by ekg (guest, #27035) [Link] Usually you upgrade packages online, and then reboot to use the new kernel if that has changed. If you use something like swaret, the upgrade process is very easy.
Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Mar 28, 2005 22:24 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] You're probably not going to like my method, but here goes: I keep a copy of the slackware -current tree, updated by rsync, and go through each directory in the slackware set, doing an 'upgradepkg *.tgz' in each one that I'm interested in upgrading. If I'm doing the 'A' set, I'll make sure I don't upgrade the 'aaa' packages, as those are meant for install-time use. I suppose you could consider it a very 'fast and loose' sort of upgrade method, but it's worked well so far, although one does have to go through and find and fix new configuration files (mostly in /etc/rc.d). I keep my Slackware systems pretty close to the vanilla install from Patrick (except for firewall rules et. al.) so things haven't been too rough.
Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Mar 28, 2005 22:43 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] In answer to the earlier question, I do the above upgrades online (without taking the system to runlevel 1) or rebooting.
Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Mar 29, 2005 3:25 UTC (Tue) by nkoozer (guest, #5553) [Link] Online is fine for one machine, but since I have 15 or 20 machines, I keep a local mirror. On each box, I just type./u This is just a little script which goes to the appropiate directory on the local server and then executes the command upgradepkg */*tgz After that I usually reboot just to confirm that the bootloader still works. Also if you reboot, you don't have to pick & choose which services to restart. I've gone for a few years now without needing a fresh install on any of those machines.
Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Mar 29, 2005 16:26 UTC (Tue) by slacker (guest, #28841) [Link] well upgrading slackware style is brilliant, because of simplicity:
if you have 3 or more machines, then just mirror current tree locally inside DMZ, (if you are not bleeding edge man, and stick to version not current, nice way is just to download iso, mount, export, that way its kind a more organised ;)...
of course you will need only disc-1 if you dont use gui
slackin is phun
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Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla Posted Apr 1, 2005 19:45 UTC (Fri) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link] We have multiple Slack machines at home. Like many others I use rsync to get a local -current mirror, from there all internal machines have access to slack-current via NFS. With Slack on NFS it is mostly a matter of doing an "upgradepkg */*.tgz" minus aaa_elflibs.
Both rsyncing Slack, or using an update tool, is described in:
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