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[Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ <root AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>]

I did this for a little bit and managed to utterly break my box =(  For
that reason and general time-to-move-on-ness, I migrated from Slack to
Source Mage.

There's no easy way to relate packages in Slackware to packages in
SM.  Mostly because the package names in Slack tend to change randomly
from version to version.

In other news, I did write a script which would autoupdate the
binaries.

-Phil/CERisE

Scott Weber said:

> I've been using Source Mage on my desktop system (AMD XP 1600+) for a
> few months now and I've been loving it. I recently got a Pentium 233
> laptop, and installed Slackware 8.1 on it (because I'm impatient and
> didn't want to wait for things to compile). However, I missed the ease
> of casting software Source Mage has, so I downloaded the sorcery tarball
> and installed it on the laptop. After creating a few files in /var,
> everything seems to work fine, except sorcery doesn't know what packages
> I already have installed on the Slackware system. Does anyone have a
> script, or would be willing to help me write a script to convert
> Slackware's list of packages (I think it's in /var/log/packages) to a
> sorcery /var/state/sorcery/packages file? (I'm not very experienced with
> bash, and only just recently found the grep command)
>
> sorry for the overly long explaination!
>
> Scott Weber
>
> P.S. I've been reading the mailing lists for a while now and I'd like to
> say that everyone is doing a terrific job! Keep up the good work!