[sbopkg-users] Installing slackbuilds after reinstall of slackware

[Donald Cooley]

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.

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Regards,
Donald Cooley