[Slapt-get-user] Sources with different priority?

[Jason Woodward]

Hi Eugene,

> Suppose I have three sources: official Slackware mirror, third party
> Gnome distribution site, and linuxpackages.net.  Gnome distribution has
> several packages overlapping with official ones, and I want them
> installed even if they have lower version than official.  On the other
> hand, I have a few extra packages from linuxpackages.net, and I want
> them up to date.  But linuxpackages.net has some packages overlapping
> with official ones, and I want them never installed, even if they have
> higher version than official.

You can use the --config option at runtime.  For your gnome sources, you could run:

# install gnome packages even if downgrade
slapt-get --config /etc/slapt-get/gnomerc --update && slapt-get --install {pkgs} --reinstall 

# install linuxpackages.net packages
slapt-get --config /etc/slapt-get/lp_net_rc --update && slapt-get --install {pkgs}

# fall back to normal rc with just slackware proper sources
slapt-get --update && slapt-get --upgrade

> As far as I understand, this cannot be done with current slapt-get.  If
> that's true, I'd like to propose a possible modification: associate
> "priority" with every "source".  When multiple packages with the same
> name are found, they are first sorted by source priority, and then best
> version is searched only within the sources of the same, highest
> priority.  Provided the default priority (for backward compatibility) is
> set to zero, slapt-getrc might look like this:
> 
> SOURCE=http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/
> SOURCE=ftp://ftp.brownjava.org/pub/frg/frg-current/ PRIORITY=1
> SOURCE=http://www2.linuxpackages.net/Slackware-10.1/ PRIORITY=-1

It would be better, I think, to assign priority in each package rather than by the source, but
there is not format for that within slackware packages at the moment.


take care,
jason

--
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org

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