upgrading slackware with swaret

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Where can you find this later version and are the dependencies being
kept up to date? Slackware 10.0 and 10.1 do *NOT* have this utility anymore.

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:48:00AM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Greg,
> You need a newer version of swaret. The format of the files it reads has
> changed, so that will happen if you aren't using the latest version.
> 
> Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
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> And so it came to pass that on Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak said
> 
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> >Hi all slackers and everyone else.
> >
> >I've got a box running slackware 9.1 here, that I didn't have time to
> >upgrade before, but have gotten around to wanting to upgrade it to
> >slack 10.1 now. I am trying to do this with swaret 1.3.1, which came
> >as an extra package in slack 9.1. My swaret.conf file is fine, since I
> >used it last time to upgrade to slackware 9.1. So, I just changed the
> >slackware version number in there from 9.1, to 10.1, and mounted the
> >first slackware cd under /cdrom, where swaret expects to find all the
> >packages, as I've configured it to do.
> >
> >I run
> >
> >swaret --update
> >
> >, and it compiles all the checksums, file lists, ETC, ETC, ETC, and
> >everything runs just fine. Then, I do
> >
> >swaret --up-all -A
> >
> >, and swaret tells me that all my installed packages are up to date,
> >which is obviously not the case. So, does anyone know what gives?
> >Should I first perhaps upgrade swaret using the standard slackware
> >upgradepkg tool, or is swaret simply not used to upgrade anymore? Any
> >informative input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Greg
> >
> >
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