Re: dist upgrade question coz 14 rocks

On 07/11/2013 00:14, Nick Edwards wrote:
> 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.


IIRC you can blacklist whole packages series.

Didier