Up Grade Porteus MATE v5.0rc3 to current

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Up Grade Porteus MATE v5.0rc3 to current

Post#1 by Jack » 12 Nov 2021, 18:32

I just updated Porteus MATE v5.0rc3 date of build used Sept 6 2021 and kernel is 5.12.14

Here is the script how I did it.

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mkdir 001-core
sudo xzm2dir 001-core*.xzm 001-core
ROOT=001-core upgradepkg update/001-core/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 001-core 001-core-20211112.xzm
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mkdir 002-xorg
sudo xzm2dir 002-xorg*.xzm 002-xorg
ROOT=002-xorg upgradepkg update/002-xorg/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 002-xorg 002-xorg-20211112.xzm
#
mkdir 002-xtra
sudo xzm2dir 002-xtra*.xzm 002-xtra
ROOT=002-xtra upgradepkg update/002-xtra/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 002-xtra 002-xtra-core-20211112.xzm
#
mkdir 003-mate
sudo xzm2dir 003-mate*.xzm 003-mate
ROOT=003-mate upgradepkg update/003-mate/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 003-mate 003-mate-20211112.xzm
#
mkdir 003-xtra
sudo xzm2dir 003-xtra*.xzm 003-xtra
ROOT=003-xtra upgradepkg update/003-xtra/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 003-xtra 003-xtra-20211112.xzm
#
mkdir 05-devel
sudo xzm2dir 05-devel*.xzm 05-devel
ROOT=05-devel upgradepkg update/05-devel/*.txz
sudo dir2xzm 05-devel 05-devel-20211112.xzm
Here is the output.

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root@porteus:/home/guest/Public# ls -l *.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  182980608 Nov 12 12:54 001-core-20211112.xzm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 guest users 133914624 Sep  6 01:13 001-core.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  120537088 Nov 12 13:00 002-xorg-20211112.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest users 111538176 Nov 10 19:04 002-xorg.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   21233664 Nov 12 13:01 002-xtra-20211112.xzm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 guest users  18255872 Sep  6 01:09 002-xtra.xzm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 guest users  18132992 Sep  6 01:10 003-mate-20210829.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   26177536 Nov 12 13:03 003-mate-20211112.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   88244224 Nov 12 13:04 003-xtra-20211112.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest users  88231936 Sep 11 20:07 003-xtra.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  146513920 Nov 12 13:15 05-devel-20211112.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest users 125816832 Nov 11 11:33 05-devel.xzm
root@porteus:/home/guest/Public#
My next step to see if it works or not.
I just like Slackware because I think it teach you about Linux to build packages where Ubuntu is like Windows you just install programs you want.