I just upgraded current via slackpkg. After finishing, slackpkg says to restart the upgrade process because of a new slackpkg package.

I did that, but it seems to be downloading everything all over and upgrading already upgraded packages.

Any ideas?

it's normal: when you run a "slackpkg upgrade-all" session and between the upgrades there's a slackpkg one, only that is applied and the package database is reseted.
so you have to download again the repository information with "slackpkg update" and then re-run "slackpkg upgrade-all": that will download again all packages.

to avoid downloading things two times, if you are upgrading and you see in the ChangeLog (you should really read that!) that slackpkg has been upgraded, just run first
so it will download just that.
after you can do the usual
run the last command of this serie with a grain of salt, deciding yourself what is to remove and what not (reading CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT and UPGRADE.TXT is strongly advised).

you could also try setting the variable DELALL to "off" in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf (but I haven't tried that myself).

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During the run, it detected a slackpkg update and so that package was updated. The other items you see in the list are not updated, which is why you need to run slackpkg again and why the packages appear in the available updates again.

It shouldn't actually download the same items twice though. It may say that it's going to, and then that it found the downloaded item in cache and won't download it a second time.

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Don't forget after slackpkg is upgraded to again run "slackpkg update gpg" and then the slackpkg update.

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