Updated 001-core.xzm

[rchase]

I managed to learn enough scripting to automate the process of removing old packages and installing new ones, (manually) downloaded all packages in 001-core.xzm for which I found updates, removed all of the old packages, and installed all the new ones. The resulting module is much larger than 001-core.xzm (I haven't stripped it of package documentation). I tried booting with my updated core module, but I can't log in; xorg complains several times about a missing libnettle.so.6. How can this be fixed? Might 003-xfce.xzm need to be updated too?

Updated core module:

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vlVOkNCrrh43Ttkh3A0qwMm7CWtBWzTK/view?usp=sharing

Removal Script:

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# Extract substring of all characters preceding the first "-" followed by a numeral:
#
get_package () {
	package="$(cut -d'-' -f 1 <<< $1)"
	second_field="$(cut -d'-' -f 2 <<< $1)"
	if [[ "${second_field:0:1}" != [0-9] ]]; then
		package="$package-$second_field"
	fi
}

exec 3</mnt/sdb5/temp/oldpackages.txt
while IFS= read -r opline <&3
do
	get_package $opline
	old_package_name=$package
	exec 4</mnt/sdb5/temp/new-package-list.txt
	while IFS= read -r npline <&4
	do
	get_package $npline
	new_package_name=$package
		if [ $new_package_name == $old_package_name ]; then
			ROOT=/mnt/sdb5/temp/unpacked removepkg $opline
			break
		fi
	done
done

Update Script:

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input="/mnt/sdb5/temp/new-package-list.txt"
while IFS= read -r line
do
ROOT=/mnt/sdb5/temp/unpacked installpkg "$line"
done < "$input"
printf "%s\n\n\n"
read -p "Hit Enter to exit"

[ncmprhnsbl]

.. we're on the verge of releasing 5.0 RC2
but yes, updating just core would be problematic, since the higher level modules generally depend on the versions in the lower levels..
have come accros the libnettle issue in the past, but don't quite remember off the top of my head what that requires..
hang tight and we'll have a whole new base for you to play with..

[beny]

hi nettle is a network libs http://slackware/slackware64-current/sl ... 6_64-1.txz, but you can try if you have the changes active a ln -s to the new nettle version,i have done this for a kodi build from source code.

[rchase]

.. we're on the verge of releasing 5.0 RC2
but yes, updating just core would be problematic, since the higher level modules generally depend on the versions in the lower levels..
have come accros the libnettle issue in the past, but don't quite remember off the top of my head what that requires..
hang tight and we'll have a whole new base for you to play with..

Thanks -- it did just take me more time than I care to admit to produce the defective module above, but having automated the process, I could go ahead and do the same for 003-xfce.xzm; do you suppose that might resolve the problem? The main reason I started tinkering with base modules is that I wanted to put exFAT support in core.xzm and the Faenza icons back into xfce.xzm (even though they take up ~18 MB of space -- I really don't care for Paper) without loading separate modules.

[rchase]

hi nettle is a network libs /slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/nettle-3.6-x86_64-1.txz, but you can try if you have the changes active a ln -s to the new nettle version,i have done this for a kodi build from source code.

Please elaborate -- where exactly should I put a symbolic link to precisely what?

[ncmprhnsbl]

I could go ahead and do the same for 003-xfce.xzm; do you suppose that might resolve the problem?

possibly, but 002-xorg could be just as important. ..the other thing to note is some packages aren't in slackware currrent (check the tags in /var/lib/pkgtools/packages ie _sBo or _jay) and may need to be recompiled..

where exactly should I put a symbolic link to precisely what?

i'd boot up to text mode and log in root, then:

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cd /usr/lib64
ls libnettle*  (to find out the version we have)
ln -s libnettle.so.<that version> libnettle.so.6

if that works, then copy the link to your extracted 001-core module and recompress..

[babam]

.. we're on the verge of releasing 5.0 RC2

That's good news.