slackpkg+

Some time ago I stumbled upon a very interesting discussion at LQ about using slackpkg with third party repositories. Down in the posts, zerouno wrote about a plugin for slackpkg that apparently can do that. So, I downloaded the beta version from here, installed it and decided to give it a try.

I am using Slackware64 14.0 -multilib and it would be real nice if I could update automatically the multilib packages. I opened /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf and made sure to use the following repositories from AlienBob:

# Slackware 14.0 - x86_64
MIRRORPLUS['multilib']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.0/
MIRRORPLUS['alienbob']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/sbrepos/14.0/x86_64/
#MIRRORPLUS['restricted']=http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/14.0/x86_64/
#MIRRORPLUS['slacky']=http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64-14.0/

After that, I made sure that AlienBob’s packages are not anymore blacklisted in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist by commenting out these lines that I had put there previously:

# Blacklist all AlienBob's packages
# [0-9]+alien

# Blacklist all AlienBob's compat32 packages
# [0-9]+compat32

Then I did as usual, but made sure not to upgrade gcc-* and glibc-* to their non-multilib versions:

slackpkg update

slackpkg upgrade-all

Works great! :)