• Slackware 15-ish

    From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Fri Feb 19 01:35:36 2021
    Hello Maurice!

    18 Feb 2021 22:51, Maurice Kinal wrote to Uncle Bob:

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    Linux version 5.10.17 (root@bitskii) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP Thu Feb 18 19:31:56 UTC 2021
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    I am ready. :-)

    bah, slackware died here, gpg error and slackpkg updated and thus stopped in middle of the jungle, new connfig, maked it 32bit mirror, update and then update-all, bye bye :/

    never slackware here anymore


    Regards Benny

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Benny Pedersen on Thu Feb 18 21:48:00 2021
    Benny Pedersen wrote to Maurice Kinal <=-

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    Linux version 5.10.17 (root@bitskii) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP Thu Feb 18 19:31:56 UTC 2021
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    I am ready. :-)

    bah, slackware died here, gpg error and slackpkg updated and thus
    stopped in middle of the jungle, new connfig, maked it 32bit
    mirror, update and then update-all, bye bye :/

    Real men don't use 'slackpkg'.

    never slackware here anymore

    Your loss.


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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Benny Pedersen on Thu Feb 18 23:58:12 2021
    Re: Slackware 15-ish
    By: Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal on Fri Feb 19 2021 01:35 am

    bah, slackware died here, gpg error and slackpkg updated and thus stopped in middle of the jungle, new connfig, maked it 32bit mirror, update and then update-all, bye bye :/

    never slackware here anymore

    That's a slackpkg thing that can catch folks unaware. It might be a good idea to blacklist slackpkg and update it manually. Whenever slackpkg is updated the update process will stop and you need to check your slackpkg config and restart the update process.

    In my own case when slackpkg was updated it depended on glibc 2.33 which hadn't been downloaded or installed and slackpkg would not run so I had to grab 3 glibc packages from the mirror and upgrade those packages with upgradepkg. Once I did that and checked my slackpkg.conf the upgrade proceeded as expected.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Richard Falken@1:123/115 to Alan Ianson on Fri Feb 19 04:58:36 2021
    Re: Slackware 15-ish
    By: Alan Ianson to Benny Pedersen on Thu Feb 18 2021 11:58 pm

    I bet I am the weirdo in this echo, because I plan to upgrade from the DVD?

    AFAIK the upgrade docs pretty much told you to switch to single user mode and apply certain updates in a certain order, else you risk breaking the system in funny ways. libc upgrades are a bitch.


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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Richard Falken on Fri Feb 19 03:34:10 2021
    Re: Slackware 15-ish
    By: Richard Falken to Alan Ianson on Fri Feb 19 2021 04:58 am

    I bet I am the weirdo in this echo, because I plan to upgrade from the DVD?

    I mostly use the DVD if I have it, I don't have an upto date DVD of slcakware-current but I will when 15.0 is released.

    AFAIK the upgrade docs pretty much told you to switch to single user mode and apply certain updates in a certain order, else you risk breaking the system in funny ways.

    The upgrade doc is still for 14.2. Slackware-current is bleeding edge so it has to be handled with care.

    Slackware has no idea about dependencies, slackpkg just updates packages as it sees them.

    libc upgrades are a bitch.

    Yes. I think 15.0's libc is updated now so smooth sailing from here. I hope!

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Maurice Kinal@2:280/464.113 to Richard Falken on Fri Feb 19 17:29:02 2021
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    Hey Richard!

    libc upgrades are a bitch.

    That is putting it mildly. glibc-2.33 was a tad more bitchier than normal methinks.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Tue Feb 23 11:45:16 2021
    Hello Maurice!

    19 Feb 2021 17:29, Maurice Kinal wrote to Richard Falken:

    libc upgrades are a bitch.

    That is putting it mildly. glibc-2.33 was a tad more bitchier than normal methinks.

    slackware just miss gentoo portage, revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg

    never anymore slackware here


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Benny Pedersen on Tue Feb 23 15:11:34 2021
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    Hey Benny!

    slackware just miss gentoo portage

    I've never heard anyone using slackware ever complain about the lack of proprietary apps before.

    revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg

    How so? I've never used slackpkg and have never heard of revdep-rebuild before now. Personally I prefer slackware pkg format to deb, rpm, whatever, given that it requires no additional tools to deal with it. tar and xz these days is all it takes, although mc for browsing tarballs is a nice touch.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Tue Feb 23 21:31:10 2021
    Hello Maurice!

    23 Feb 2021 15:11, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    slackware just miss gentoo portage
    I've never heard anyone using slackware ever complain about the lack
    of proprietary apps before.

    +1

    its like windows 10 never miss explore 11

    revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg
    How so?

    revdep-rebuild fix if some precompiled installs fails with ldd /bin/bash

    or in slackware now ldd /bin/awk

    I've never used slackpkg and have never heard of
    revdep-rebuild before now.

    you never used gentoo then

    Personally I prefer slackware pkg format
    to deb, rpm, whatever,

    why not keep it debian then ?

    given that it requires no additional tools to
    deal with it. tar and xz these days is all it takes, although mc for browsing tarballs is a nice touch.

    my now brokken slackware only uses taballs, not db files


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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  • From Richard Falken@1:123/115 to Benny Pedersen on Tue Feb 23 17:30:54 2021
    Re: Slackware 15-ish
    By: Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal on Tue Feb 23 2021 11:45 am

    Hello Maurice!

    19 Feb 2021 17:29, Maurice Kinal wrote to Richard Falken:

    libc upgrades are a bitch.

    That is putting it mildly. glibc-2.33 was a tad more bitchier than normal methinks.

    slackware just miss gentoo portage, revdep-rebuild comes handy on brokken slackpkg

    never anymore slackware here


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

    If you get a total broken Slackware install you can just boot a install DVD, force an upgrade on the broken system, and then rebuild all your "extras" with sbotools quite easily.

    And it will take less time than rebuilding half your @world.

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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Richard Falken on Sat Feb 27 04:18:20 2021
    Hello Richard!

    23 Feb 2021 17:30, Richard Falken wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    If you get a total broken Slackware install you can just boot a
    install DVD, force an upgrade on the broken system, and then rebuild
    all your "extras" with sbotools quite easily.

    i give up with slackware

    if i reboot it, it wont succesfully boot again, so i dont do it

    And it will take less time than rebuilding half your @world.

    and you belive i need that on gentoo ?


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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