On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Sean McMahon wrote: > So the slackware upgrade tool won't upgrade itself? Another reason I guess why > I like my favorate distro. I've done upgrades with upgradepkg, which is part of Slackware. The first CD usually has a file called "upgrade.txt" which explains the procedure, but it's a fairly manual procedure. Slackware has always been closer to a "do it yourself" distribution than others. I usually prefer to wipe out everything and do a clean install, then restore what I need from backups. I find that if I don't, I end up with a lot of crud I no longer need. For example, older versions of Slackware didn't have GPG, so I had installed it myself. It was easier for me to just start over rather than upgrade over the top of the existing system, then try and remove the old GPG files from my own build. Similarly, Slackware now includes a program called pinepgp, which is a GPG/PGP filter to be added to Pine. I had previously used one called Magicpgp, and when I did a fresh install of Slackware 10.1, I dumped Magicpgp and switched to Pinepgp, which has a nice install script. So, I don't mind doing things manually, because I got started with Slackware, and when they made Speakup part of their standard install, I decided to stick with them. I suppose that if I'd started with Redhat or Fedora, and gotten used to it, I'd be annoyed at Slackware.
