automatic pakages update in slackware

sqn · 10-21-2004, 06:16 AM

Hi all

I heard a wile ago about a sscript that can do automatic update to the pakages in slack. It said that it was buit especialy for it and it was running using crontab and the slackware-current directory on ftp.

Dose anybody know abut something like this?

Thx in advance

-X- · 10-21-2004, 06:25 AM

Here's how I do it. You can replace the ftp site and version from one on the Slackware site. Get back if you need anything. Mail yourself or as I have it (root), log in as root and use mutt (or mail).
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...05#post1231205

edit:
Course you might be thinking of swaret or slapt-get. your pick.

ernesto_lelo · 10-21-2004, 08:09 PM

Maybe my suggestion is not to technical, but you could try using swaret to do that

angelushu · 10-22-2004, 08:26 AM

http://swaret.sourceforge.net/

xushi · 10-22-2004, 09:16 AM

hmm, IMO i don't recommend automatically updating packages. Its a bit too dangerous, especially if you're updating the kernel and the script doesn't automatically type 'lilo' at the end... (note: i didn't look at the script).

There are other dangers too..

MQMan · 10-22-2004, 02:40 PM

One of the earlier suggestions linked to a way of using wget. The only problem with that, is that it doesn't delete the old packages when Pat updates a version level.

A better method is to use rsync. Try searching for that on the site and you should find a couple of usable suggestions.

Cheers.