[ale] Speaking of Slackware...

[jimmyc at speedfactory.net (Jim Philips)]

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 08:36 am, Preston Boyington wrote:
> With the recent talk of Slack, I've decided to take another look at it (and
> Vectorlinux).  I ran across slackins package manager and wondered if anyone
> was using it.
>
> http://slackins.sourceforge.net/

The real tool for keeping Slackware up to date is Swaret:

http://swaret.sourceforge.net/index.php

It functions kind of like yum for RedHat. You tell it what version you're on, 
where to download and what to ignore, then:

swaret --upgrade

It gets all settings from swaret.conf, usually in /etc.