[Slapt-get-devel] Detecting Downgrades and Removals?
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org
Sun Jan 16 17:37:18 EST 2005
Hi,
> Heh, I hate to keep replying to my hasty emails but I just noticed the
> '--remove-obsolete' option, when did that sneak in? =).
That was added in 0.9.9f.
> but the downgrade question still remains.
The Slackware Changelog and UPGRADE.TXT are still required reading for all users taking the
-current plunge or upgrading to newer Slackware releases.
> I noticed that when I ran
> 'slapt-get --dist-upgrade --remove-obsolete' I was prompted to remove all
> the packages ive added manually with 'checkinstall -S'. My only choice is
> to either say yes to remove them all, remove none of them or to go into
> slapt-getrc and add an entry for each one I want to keep into the EXCLUDE
> list which can get tedious. I think it would be nice to add an
> '--interactive' option
Adding an exclude for all your built packages doesn't scale, for sure. When you build your own
packages, make sure they include a tag in the build portion that you can exclude just like how
the default dropline exclude works. So if I make a valgrind package,
valgrind-2.2.0-4-i486-1jsw.tgz, I add .*[0-9]jsw$ to my exclude list and I can use
--remove-obsolete w/o loosing my custom packages.
take care,
jason
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