Security Updates in Slackware64-14.2

Ed Fletcher via slackware <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:42:23 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I just did an install of Slackware 64 14.2 on a spare box.  I'd looked at
slackware64-14.2/FILELIST.TXT
on my local mirror and saw
mozilla-firefox-52.4.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
as one of the listed files.  So I checked a couple of other security 
updates and they were included too.  This led me to believe that I would 
have an up-to-date and secure install.

However, when I finished and fired up Firefox, I found that I had 45.2.0 
instead of the newer version.  So I checked
slackware64-14.2/source/FILE_LIST
and, sure enough, it lists
mozilla-firefox/firefox-45.2.0esr.source.tar.xz.
And
slackware64-14.2/slackware64/FILE_LIST
says v45 also.

A bit more checking confirmed that none of the security updates are 
installed.

So what is the FILELIST.TXT in the main directory telling me?  And do I 
have to install 16 or 17 months worth of security updates?  Because I'd 
rather switch to Slackware64-current and save myself the work.

Thanks for reading,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher

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