[SOLVED] slackpkg 15.0 wants to update, remove and install a huge number of packages

M0M0 · 02-08-2021, 08:28 AM

I just updated to slackpkg 15.0. As suggested in the thread named slackpkg 15.0 I disabled slackpkg+ which I was using previously to get the new blacklisting syntax working. Then I blacklisted all the SBO alien and multilib packages and run slackpkg update. If I now run slackpkg upgrade-all it wants to update hundreds of packages. Also if I run slackpkg install-new or clean-system a huge number of packages show up. So should I update to these packages or not? I'm quite confused by all of that.

Petri Kaukasoina · 02-08-2021, 08:41 AM

Don't upgrade them. There is a wrong mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. A -current mirror should be used, not a 14.2 one. (As I wrote in the other thread.)

M0M0 · 02-08-2021, 09:04 AM

Thanks, so by updating slackpkg the mirror file in /etc/slackpkg got replaced by a new config file and therefore a 14.2 mirror was used. Fixed that and everything works fine now.