[Slapt-get-user] Confused slapt-get?

[R Dicaire]

On 12/2/06, Per Börjesson <sky at hi.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to get frgnome-2.14.3 onboard a slackware box that I have upgraded
> to 11.0 using slapt-get. I believe part of my problem is that frgnome-2.14.3
> was really designed for slack 10.2. Regardless, I would have expected slapt-get
> to UPGRADE from libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1 to libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg. Instead, it
> claims "libgsf is up to date", so in fact the frg package was never installed.
> When I ask slapt-get afterwards it claims both packages are installed, even
> if /var/log says otherwise!

My understanding is that version of FRG was for slack-current, aka
11...I can't tell you why slapt-get is confusing the two, but I can
tell you that you should exclude slackware pkgs that are duplicated in
FRG, and use the FRG versions solely....hope that helps...

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