Hi all

Just a little confuse over Swaret

I've just had a discussion with my friend regarding "swaret" for upgrading slackware. He stated that swaret only upgraded the packages and leave the system intact, I mean the /usr , /var, etc. . He did compare it with "cvsup" and FreeBSD

I believe that Swaret did upgrade the system and the packages, as I've noticed that if you set the VERSION to "current" , it will upgraded your slackware system to the latest that is available in the current repository. I also notice in QTSwaret (a QT UI for swaret with SPI added) , there is an option for "Upgrade Distro" , meaning that it will upgrade your slack's to the current distro released?

I'm a bit confused here , after the debate with my friend. Anyone can shed some light on me?

Thanks in advanced.

* just notice that google is down while I'm typing this.

i prefer slapt-get than swaret ...

Wikipedia for swaret definition



p/s try compare swaret with apt-get ,yum, dag ..might be u will find the answer

This post has been edited by kevler: May 9 2005, 12:38 AM

faizi, by default swaret will only upgrade packages. refer to /etc/swaret.conf and u'll see that few packages are excluded from upgrade/downgrade. those are the packages (not all) that u shouldn't messing around or you will end up reinstalling slackware

Thanks

Never try yum or dag before, haven't had the priviliges nor the time to play with other distros.. just my slackware for my everyday use..

I remember a situation when I was using slackware 9.1. I've upgraded my slackware to the current packages regularly using swaret, then one day I try to install dropline gnome (2.8 if i'm not mistaken) just for fun.

But the dropline's fail to install , and the error message goes something like, "this dropline is optimized for slackware 10.0 only, it seems that you are using slackware 10.1, would you like to ignore this and continue the installation bla bla bla...." , and this is before slackware 10.1 is officially release. I never did install the dropline though.

Thanks for the reply, really appreciated it.

pat dropped gnome from slackware-current, but you can install gnome from (apart from dropline):
http://gsb.sf.net
http://gware.sf.net

get more info here: http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

Thanks for the info

I'm not interested in GNOME, i just want to try dropline to see if there is differences in performance as they claim that Dropline is optimised for i686 arch instead of i386 for the one that came with the default installation.

My point is, why does dropline detect the system as 10.1 instead of 9.1 if swaret only upgraded the packages? As u have stated in your previous reply.

Thanks

one possibility i can think of is when u upgrade slack 9.1 packages, u also upgrade aaa_base package which contain /etc/slackware-version file. and may be dropline look for that file to get the version of slackware installed. need to check with dropline team for that. does that make sense to you

Yosh

That's the kind of answer I'm looking for

Make me love slackware even more..

Thanks man