djemos wrote:Thanks Papasot. Local repo in my laptop had lxterminal-0.3.1-i586-2dj but somehow did not upload it in sourceforge repo with rsync. It is corrected now.
Indeed, it is corrected now. My 32-bit Slackel system is fully updated. Thank you, Dimitris!
djemos wrote:About gimp. I had to do the same and in some other package. e.g. In the past for samba. It is not slackware's problem.
It is spkg problem which is used by slackel. As i said in the past i have to change slapt-get to not use spkg but upgradepkg, installpkg etc Then upgrades will not have any problem. The only problem would be the speed, especially when upgrade the source kernel package. Because upgradepkg first preinstall the package.
It is a decision to take and i am not sure. What is your opinion about this change.
Personally, I don't have any problem to manually upgrade a few packages (such as gimp) every now and then. For me, the important part is that I have a 10-years-old 32-bit Netbook here, running a fully up-to-date GNU/Linux - a thing fans of most other distributions (such as Crapbuntu) could only dream of. Thanks to Slackel, I use that Netbook when I am not at home, and it runs the latest version of gcc, Firefox, and many libraries I need - which is impressive for such an old computer. I also have a 64-bit Slackel system installed in a more recent computer (which I will upgrade to version 7.1 in the next days)..
Maintaining two Slackel installations is far from being a problem for me, because Slackel is way more stable than what one would expect from a rolling distribution. In the worst case, I have to post a question here, getting a solution from you in a matter of a few hours - plus I usually learn something I didn't know in the process.
As for my opinion concerning transition from spkg to installpkg, it all depends on what you, as the Slackel developer, want. If your target audience is people who don't mind some manual operations to maintain the system, then you don't have to switch from spkg to upgradepkg. However, as it is now, it won't attract more casual users. I am not talking about users who have zero knowledge on how to maintain a system - those would never be the audience of a rolling disrtibution. I am talking about people who don't have the time to deal with such "details" too often. Personally, I would switch to upgradepkg if I were the developer, sacrificing some speed (which would probably be noticeable only in special cases, such as the source kernel package you mentioned). I would do the transition to upgradepkg because Slackel is a great distribution and it deserves a larger users community. I have friends trapped using Crapbuntu, who got impressed seeing me running the latest version of software on a very old machine, but they won't dare to install Slackel just because I told them "you might need to manually upgrade some packages, but it's not a problem, really".