Slackware Upgrade

For reference.

A bash shell script I used to upgrade from 14.1 to 14.2.

upgrade_14-1_to_14-2.sh

#!/bin/bash
# - upgrade 14.1 to 14.2
SLACKVERS="14.2"
 
# setup path to slackware tree
SLACKROOT=${SLACKROOT:="$(pwd)"}
[ -z "$SLACKARCH" ] && [ -n "$ARCH" ] && SLACKARCH=$ARCH
SLACKARCH=${SLACKARCH:="$(uname -m)"}
SLACKSUFX=${SLACKSUFX:=""}
[ "$SLACKARCH" == "x86_64" ] && SLACKSUFX="64"
SLACKFULL=${SLACKFULL:="slackware${SLACKSUFX}"}
[ -z "$SLACKVERS" ] && [ -n "$RELEASE" ] && SLACKVERS=$RELEASE
SLACKVERS=${SLACKVERS:="current"}
SLACKRELS=${SLACKFULL}-${SLACKVERS}
SLACKPATH=${SLACKROOT}/${SLACKRELS}
 
# step 1
upgradepkg ${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/a/glibc-solibs-*.txz
 
# step 2
upgradepkg ${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/a/pkgtools-*.txz
upgradepkg ${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/a/tar-*.txz
upgradepkg ${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/a/xz-*.txz
upgradepkg ${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/a/findutils-*.txz
 
# step 3
for dir in a ap d k l n t tcl x xap xfce ; do
	do_path=${SLACKPATH}/${SLACKFULL}/$dir
	[ ! -d $do_path ] && continue
	( cd $do_path ; upgradepkg --install-new *.t?z )
done
 
# step 4
removepkg ConsoleKit apmd bluez-hcidump cxxlibs foomatic-filters \
  gnome-icon-theme imlib kdeadmin kdenetwork kdesdk kdetoys kwallet \
  lesstif libelf libjpeg libxfcegui4 networkmanagement obex-data-server \
  obexfs open-cobol oxygen-gtk3 phonon-mplayer phonon-xine pil portmap \
  procps qca-cyrus-sasl qca-gnupg qca-ossl udev xchat xf86-input-aiptek \
  xf86-video-modesetting xfce4-mixer xfce4-volumed xfwm4-themes
 
# step 5
# - run chknew
 
# step 7
# - check boot config