Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla [LWN.net]

Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla

Posted Mar 29, 2005 3:25 UTC (Tue) by nkoozer (guest, #5553)
In reply to: Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla by cbcbcb
Parent article: Slackware drops GNOME, restores Mozilla

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.

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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 ;)...
so you have your cron running and syncing distro locally, then you can use swaret (also since 10.1 i guess, pat included slackpkg in extra dir, but i stick with swaret), just point swaret.conf to local mirror

of course you will need only disc-1 if you dont use gui

slackin is phun

arno