[Slapt-get-user] slapt-get-0.9.11f on slack10.2

[Per Börjesson]

Jason Woodward wrote:
> Hi Per,
> 
>> I wanted to see for myself, so I made some experiments. I cleaned up and recreated CHECKSUMS.md5
>> and PACKAGES.TXT using the script from FAQ17. They look healthy; all checksums are in
> CHECKSUMS.md5
>> with proper relative paths, and PACKAGES.TXT looks very much like package_data except for the
>> checksum.
>>
>> When I run "slapt-get --update" It works in one of two ways:
>>
>>    * from any of my desktops updated to 11.0 package_data contains the checksums for each
> package description
>>    * from my laptop mostly at 10.2 package_data contains NO checksum for any package description
>>
>> I don't get any error message on my laptop, and it doesn't matter if I include a SOURCE for
>> //ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-11.0 or not.
>>
>> Is it possible that slapt-get-0.9.11f requires newer versions of some packages?
> 
> Unlikely.  If you are using the same version of slapt-get on both your laptop and your
> desktops, the only thing that pops into my head is a possible libcurl file:/// problem (since
> 10.2 uses the ancient 7.12.2 and 11 uses 7.15.5).  The following from the libcurl changelog
> (http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html) seems to indicate this could be the culprit:
> 
> Fixed in 7.15.1 - December 7 2005... Bugfixes:
>     * URL buffer overflow problem
>     * using file:// on non-existing files are properly handled 
> 
> It is hard to know if the bug was introduced after the 7.12.2 release or not.  We can find out
> definitively if you try upgrading libcurl to see if the problem goes away.

Yes, it does!! :)

>  
>> Please let me know if you still need the files.
> 
> Probably not necessary at this point.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> jason

Regards
Per