[PLUG] slackpkg upgrade-all error

[Dick Steffens]

On 11/23/18 12:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Ran slackpkg upgrade-all again
>>     Finished with warning:
>>         One of more errors occurred while slackpkg was running:
>>         /usr/libexec/slackpkg/core-functions.sh: line 18: /bincat: No 
>> such file or directory
>
>> Is bincat something important?
>
> Dick,
>
>   I've not had that error message show up here in the 15 years I've run
> slackware, so ignore it. There's no bincat on my systems so I'd not worry
> about it. Here, it's not in core-functions.sh.

Ignoring works for me. I hope to remain blissful.

>
>   I don't recall how to sign up for security patch notices, 

They use majordomo at slackware.com

subscribe slackware-security

which I have done.

> but running
> slackpkg update once a week will compare what's installed with what's 
> in the
> change logs on the repository you use (I assume it's
> ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/.2/slackware/slackware64-14.2/), if there's 
> nothing new
> the script will tell you this. If there are upgraded packages follow 
> that by
> slackpkg upgrade-all.
>
>   The non-security patches aren't announced via e-mail, but security
> upgrades are. So checking once a week is good enough to keep things 
> patched.

I'll keep that in mind. This laptop will be living down in the living 
room, so I'll need to pay closer attention to it.

Thanks.


-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens