Re: dist upgrade question coz 14 rocks

On 11/6/13, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I note that in upgrade Pat always offers the quick 'n dirty how to
>> upgrade everything, but never shows a quick basic way for bare bones,
>> like servers
>>
>> So, If I use a cut downed version of his example, like
>>
>>     #!/bin/sh
>>     for dir in a ap d  f l n t tcl  y ; do
>>       ( cd $dir ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
>>     done
>>
>>
>> removing kde  kdei , x , xapp, and xfce  and E (since emacs is built
>> with X and not before)
>> and I know the L will include some X libraries I'll need to check and
>> remove if I feel energetic enough,   will this upgrade everything?
>> the risk of breaking things is low ?
>>
>> and yes, I know I'll need to go over and find obsoletes manually :)
>
> Why not using slackpkg?
> point /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to slackware version you would like to upgrade
> slackpkg update gpg
> slackpkg update
> slackpkg install-new
> slackpkg upgrade-all
> slackpkg clean-system
>

I have used slackpkg in the past and its great, but last time I used
install-new it installed X and everything associated, no-one sane puts
a GUI on a server :)
So I spent ages adding new packaged manually. Trying to avoid that now if I can.