This last time around, I upgraded several slackware machines and it generally went pretty smoothly. The most manually intensive part was to diff compare some /etc configuration files that changed and by having a couple consoles going at the same time, I got through that effort pretty quickly. I used the upgradepkg for one machine and swaret on another and I must say that swaret die a pretty slick job as I said in another message. It tracked dependencies just like Depian's apt-get does. On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:19:49AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Thanks. I upgraded slackware/l/glib*.tgz, and it works now. > > This machine started out running slack 8.1, mostly upgraded to 9.0, > and now just a bit to 9.1. I should probably break down, trash the > entire system, and do a fresh reinstall of the newest version of > slack. However, that would mean setting up a box to temporarily act as > my server, and it would mean a full day or 2 to set everything up, and > to make sure that the system is secured properly before putting it > back on-line. > > Besides, this box will be 4 years old in January, and the hardware is > slowly, but surely showing it's age. So, I was hoping to build myself > a new server in the not too distant future, and do a fresh install on that, with the old box still > running, instead of setting up a temporary server, trashing this one, > and doing a fresh install, for probably not too long a period of time, > given this machine's age. > > I am also playing with debian, in hopes of having more options in > terms of which distro I want to go with, when the time comes for a new > server. So far, I am very impressed with the package management > system. In fact, with the amount of binary packages available in > debian, I estimate that I could have my server fully running in about > 6 or 7 hours, as opposed to a day or 2 with slackware, where I would > need to build most of what I use from source, only bind, proftpd, ssh, > and apache would be the exception here. > However, I am very used to /etc/rc.d, and various other things > different between debian and slackware, and old habits die hard. -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
