Stefan,

> Hi, my slackware router still runs on SW 12.0 and I finally want to upgrade it to 12.2 - with
> slapt-get. However each time I'm running it it says that the update failed (see log below). All
> dependencies according to the homepage are met.
> 
> I've looked in the man-pages and the FAQ and STFW but didn't find a switch to turn on any
more useful
> error messages. Is there a hidden "verbose" or "debug" switch I can turn on to see what's going
> wrong?

> Verifying checksum signature
> [ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-12.2/]...Not Verified
...
> Verifying checksum signature
> [http://software.jaos.org/slackpacks/12.2/]...Not Verified 

It looks like your gpg support is broken.  Are you using the 12.2 slapt-get package on your
12.0 machine?  Make sure that you have gnupg 1.x (not gnupg2), gpgme, and libgpg-error installed.


You could also try removing the Slackware and Jaos.org gpg keys.

# gpg --list-keys
...
pub   1024D/40102233 2003-02-26 [expires: 2012-12-21]
uid                  Slackware Linux Project <security@slackware.com>
...
pub   1024D/D51E2F1C 2007-06-16
uid                  Jason Woodward <woodwardj@jaos.org>

# gpg --delete-secret-and-public-key 40102233
# gpg --delete-secret-and-public-key D51E2F1C


take care,
jason
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Jason Woodward
woodwardj@jaos.org