[Slapt-get-user] linuxpackages.net tip

[Jude DaShiell]

If upgrading from linuxpackages.net 3rd party packages, it will help to 
put ldconfigure in root's .bash_logout file.  Apparently apt-get runs 
ldconfigure just before it exits over in Debian.  I spent some time using 
apt-get in Debian and never ran into a situation in which ldconfigure 
tried updating during a reboot once apt-get had been run.  I did earlier 
today and ended up having to reinstall the system.  I have an interest in 
some of the packages on linuxpackages.net and think rather than doing any 
upgrades from that site in the future I'll go for the specific packages 
when the update lists will even download.  As of now, several of the 
different version-based lists will not download at all from 
linuxpackages.net.  9.2, 9.1, 9.0, 8.0 11.0, and 12.0 all fail to download 
because of different errors.  The 12.0 I wrote about earlier that had an 
nmap upgrade package in it failed to download because of that nmap package 
and crashed slapt-get right after failing to download.  When I did echo $? 
I got back error 1.  Other errors have ranged from 44 to 46 depending on 
the particular failing section.  My work around in this case is to comment 
the version lines out that don't yet work and move on.  I would have put 
that error information in my last message but couldn't remember about the 
$? thing for the bash shell to get the errors to print out and had to look 
that up in the bash documentation. With slapt-get use on linuxpackages.net 
and mirrors I recommand adding nmap*,udev*,nethack* to your exclusion 
lines in slapt-getrc and that should get you past some of the trouble with 
that site.  Nethack isn't particularly troublesome other than not working, 
udev breaks my system on reboot, and nmap crashes when it tries 
downloading from 12.0 area. I've found gnomeslackbuild distribution to 
have no problems to date.