[Slapt-get-user] Options for patch upgrades
Roy Keene
slapt at rkeene.org
Thu Apr 14 19:35:12 EDT 2005
Kind of... Slackware releases patches as packages for you to "upgradepkg"
The patches are stored in the "patches/packages" directory from your favorite
Slackware mirror.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Sean Donner wrote:
> Slackware doesn't release patches (at least not to my knowledge), instead
> they release entirely new versions of slackpacks (ie .tgz files). Once a
> new slackpack comes out, simply run 'slapt-get --update && slapt-get
> --upgrade' and that should do it. If you are tracking -current then use
> --dist-upgrade instead of --upgrade.
>
> -Sean
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've searched the subject lines of the mailling list archive and from
>> Oct 2003 till March 2005 there isn't a subject line that indicates
>> anything about patches, so if this is a repeat, my apologies :)
>>
>> Specifically, I'm interested in how to config slapt-get to update
>> patches, but didn't see anything to that effect in the config file. Did
>> I miss it or is there an option I pass at the command line?
>>
>> Cheers
>> /j
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