Many of you probably know, I've been using Slackware, and slackpkg, for about 3+ years now. I don't recall having this particular problem before, and I remain stumped as to why it is so. I've been poking at this problem for several days now, and am still missing what is probably a small stupid thing causing me this grief, and nobody else seems to have had this problem:
I can't seem to upgrade to -current 
History:
I went from Slackware-11.0 to Slackware64-current back before 13.0-64 was officially released. I initially did this by using Robby's rsync-mirror script to create myself a -current DVD and installed fresh from that DVD.
After that, I used slackpkg to keep my -current installation up to date.
Once 13.0/64 became officially released, I changed my slackpkg mirrors file to point at a 13.0 stable mirror, and all has, AFAICT, been fine since then.
Present Day:
So now, as we know there are lots of fun new changes and stuff in Slackware64-current as of early March 2010.
I would like to switch back to -current
I've got my /etc/slackpkg/mirrors file pointed at:
Code:
ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/
Here's my slackpkg.conf file:
Code:
root@reactor: cat /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf | sed '/^#\|^$/d'
ARCH=x86_64
PKGMAIN=slackware
TEMP=/var/cache/packages
WORKDIR=/var/lib/slackpkg
WGETFLAGS="--passive-ftp"
DELALL=off
CHECKMD5=on
CHECKGPG=on
PRIORITY=( patches %PKGMAIN extra testing pasture )
POSTINST=on
ONLY_NEW_DOTNEW=off
ONOFF=on
DOWNLOAD_ALL=on
DIALOG=on
BATCH=off
DEFAULT_ANSWER=y
USE_INCLUDES=on
SPINNING=on
So, with the above settings, "slackpkg update" appears to work fine.
Here's the top bit of the ChangeLog.txt file that I get when I update slackpkg:
Code:
root@reactor: cat /var/lib/slackpkg/ChangeLog.txt
Tue Mar 2 19:07:31 UTC 2010
a/aaa_elflibs-13.013-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
a/coreutils-8.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use --without-gmp, at least for now. We don't want utilities in /bin
requiring a library in /usr/lib{,64} that may not be available.
l/gtk+2-2.18.7-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/libpng-1.4.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Now with less rat.
xap/xchat-2.8.6-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
+--------------------------+
Mon Mar 1 22:43:53 UTC 2010
Hey folks, we have a whole bunch of updates! Huge thanks to Robby Workman,
Eric Hameleers, and Piter Punk for all the help. :-)
a/aaa_elflibs-13.013-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
a/acpid-2.0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/bash-4.1.002-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/coreutils-8.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/cups-1.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
...
8<----snip----8<
Looks correct, yes? Nice new stuff in there, dated March 2010..
FWIW, here's me /etc/slackware-version file:
Code:
root@reactor: cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 13.0.0.0.0
root@reactor:
Now, if I run "slackpkg upgrade-all" right now, I am offered
bash-completion-1.1-noarch-1.txz and
slacktrack-2.07-x86_64-1.txz -- that's it!
If I run "slackpkg install-new" I'm told there's nothing new to install:
Code:
No packages match the pattern for install. Try:
slackpkg upgrade|reinstall
So.. What gives here? It's GOTTA be something ridiculous, silly, stupid, whatever. I don't care
you can even laugh at how dense I've been when the problem comes to light, that's cool
but someone pLeAsE tell me what I'm missing!?
Big Thanks!
Sasha
slackpkg insists on NOT upgrading me to slackware64-current. What am I missing?
