[sbopkg-users] Installing slackbuilds after reinstall of slackware

[Chess Griffin]

* Donald Cooley <dfcooley at gmail.com> [2010-03-26 17:14:39]:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:39:16PM -0600, Marc Payne wrote:
> > Hello Donald,
> > 
> > I'm merely a user of sbopkg, but I think I can help to clear up one
> > part of your dilemma:
> > 
> > > I thought that if I installed with sbopkg then I would know
> > > which pkgs were installed and when there were updates.
> > 
> > Sbopkg knows which "_SBo" packages are installed on your system simply
> > by parsing the list of all installed packages in /var/log/packages. In
> > other words, sbopkg doesn't maintain its own separate list or database
> > of installed SBo packages. This means that you can safely use
> > installpkg to install everything you placed in /tmp, and the next time
> > you fire up sbopkg and look at your list of installed SBo packages,
> > they will be there.
> > 
> > Now, to update your packages, you do need to have a recently synced
> > local repo. Sbopkg simply compares version numbers contained in the
> > repo with version numbers of SBo packages in /var/log/packages to
> > determine if updates are available.
> > 
> > I suppose to sum up: as Chess was hinting, it is perfectly acceptable
> > to cd to /tmp and run "installpkg *.tgz" ("upgradepkg --install-new
> > *.tgz" may be better if you happened to install some of them already).
> > 
> > Hope this makes some sense. :-)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Marc
> 
> Hi Marc,
> That makes perfect sense. Thank you.
> 
> ---
> Regards,
> Donald Cooley

Thanks, Marc, for the excellent explanation!  :-)  Sorry if I was not
more clear, Donald -- I hope it's working ok for you now.

-- 
Chess Griffin
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