I used your guide to install Slackware and pkgsrc on two systems and I don't think I would have been able to do it without it, so thanks! Some advice I would add for updating pkgsrc packages: I've had good results doing this by setting USE_DESTDIR=yes and setting DEPENDS_TARGET=package-install and UPDATE_TARGET=package-install, then using pkg_rolling-replace to update all the packages. Using DESTDIR means that pkgsrc will install to the .destdir directory in the package's work directory, build a binary package, then use the binary package to install the package on the filesystem proper. This avoids the chicken-and-egg problem of updating packages that are marked as not-for-deletion, i.e. packages that were built through the bootstrapping process, since pkg_add won't complain about it if the -u option is used, which is what package-install does for packages that are being updated/replaced. I'll have to upgrade my Slackware installation to 13.0, and get a different system on which I can start anew and try out your scripts. I remember how tedious it was picking only the packages I needed in Slackware's installer, so having your shell scripts to do the work for me would be a big help. :) -- - Dave V. On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:05:21 +0300 Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen%iki.fi@localhost> wrote: > Hi, > > I finally updated my notes about using pkgsrc with Slackware Linux (version > 13.0). As you can see, some things are still under construction (but feel > free > to contribute :-) > > http://kuparinen.org/martti/comp/slackware/ > > Martti
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