A look at Slackware's package utilities (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

A look at Slackware's package utilities (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 3:24 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
Parent article: A look at Slackware's package utilities (Linux.com)

Slightly OT comment and query: does anyone know what's going on with Slackware? I've looked through the newsgroups and there's not much signal detectable these days, and no changes in -current since 9 November... is Pat having more health problems (I surely hope not!)?

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A look at Slackware's package utilities (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 3:39 UTC (Wed) by notamisfit (subscriber, #40886) [Link]

Just out of curiosity, did you read the note he left on November 9? The one about how it was going to be a while because he had to build the whole toolchain over again for the next release? Anyways, the last update to -stable was on Feb 18, so I guess he's still plugging right along.

A look at Slackware's package utilities (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 21, 2007 6:09 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Why, yes, I *have* read that note... how do you think I knew it was 9 November that the last update
was posted?

My point is, as someone else posted below, that it would be nice to see a little note posted once in a
while (once a month maybe?) saying how things are going. Pat can do whatever he wants--it's his
ship after all, of course, but it just kind of makes one (me) nervous, especially after his health
problems of the last couple years. Communication (even just a ping) is a good thing.

Major revisions to Slackware causing delays in -current

Posted Feb 21, 2007 4:11 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

By the looks of the -current ChangeLog one might think the Slackware development team was asleep at the wheel. But, the above poster mentions they're busy building the whole distribution using the newer GCC 4 and 2.6 Kernel series. Yet, I agree, it would be nice to have someone give an updated status somewhere (hint, hint)...

As for the original article, I do tend to agree that Slackware's package tools adhere to the KISS method, and I have found that building a package in Slackware is much easier than hand-crafting an RPM. (I've never played with Debian.)