[Slapt-get-user] updating slack

Jason Woodward slapt-get-user@software.jaos.org
Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:35:23 -0500


Hi,

> First of all congratulations for this work. 
> I am a new in linux, I just, finally install Slack
> 9.1.
> My questions is in order to update my sistem, it is
> possible include the Kernel right now is 2.4.22, I
> will like to upgrade to 2.4.24. 
> In order to include the kernel, Do I edit EXCLUDE,
> leaving only the lilo? something like this
> 
> EXClUDE: lilo

You can remove the kernel entry from the exclude list within slapt-getrc, or you can just pass
the name of the kernel package to slapt-get --install and it will go ahead and install it for
you.  Anything you explicitly give to --install is not checked against the exclude list,
slapt-get simply assumes you know what you want.   The exclude list is consulted only for
--upgrade and --dist-upgrade so that you don't have to do everything by hand.

Take care,
jason