From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:56:16 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   > Are you talking about the "K", "O", "R", "P" question that I've seen?   
      
   I must admit that I am not very familiar with slackpkg myself. I install   
   my security update with a custom Makefile which basically just checks   
   that it is run on the right Slackware version (by checking   
   /etc/slackware-version) before running   
   "upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall" on all packages that need to get   
   updated. I have customized my kernel packages, they contain my own,   
   possibly patched kernels and the doinst.sh also checks which bootloader   
   is being used and updates that. But probably most important, I carefully   
   read the ChangeLog.txt before downloading and installing any packages.   
      
   Nevertheless I have hit some bumps during the years. At some occasion   
   some glibc-zoneinfo package reseted all my time zone settings. Since then   
   I avoid upgrading such packages. If we would switch to another time zone   
   or change the daylight saving dates in Sweden I would probably have to   
   upgrade that package. I usually also first install the updates on a test   
   system and try to see if the behave as expected before pushing them out   
   to more systems.   
      
   > So far the process I described has worked for me, but then I've only   
   > been updating/upgrading regularly for a few months now.   
      
   Fortunately, kernel updates in stable versions of Slackware does not   
   happen very often. The last such update was back in June 2024 when the   
   kernel was upgraded to 5.15.161.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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