[ale] Slackware 12.0 installation scripts

[David Jackson]

Turns out I cannot upgradepkg over the top of these.  The install scripts
don't know what to do with installed files that are empty.  Apparently the
pkg management system doesn't see a problem.

Anyone experience this before?

Tia,
Dave

On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <deepbsd.ale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, well what I wound up doing was something like
>
> (from the mount point of the CD with the packages: /packages)
>
> for f in ls slackware/*/*.tgz do ;
>   name=`basename $f | cut -d '-' -f1`
>   echo $name
>   file `which $name`
> done > $HOME/OUTPUT
>
> I did a grep empty $HOME/OUTPUT | wc -l
>
> and found 69 files that were bad.
>
>
> I'm surprised that it was "only" 69 that didn't make it.  But at least I
> know better where I am at.
>
>
> There's probably a slicker way to do this, and I'm all ears if so.  But
> this is the first thing I thought of that might work.  So thanks much
> anyway!
>
> Dave
>
>
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