The system become problematic when upgrading packages. This is annoing

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djemos
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The system become problematic when upgrading packages. This is annoing

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The story which happened in the past and happens again and again.
upgrading xkeyboard-config-2.38-noarch-1 to new version i could not change keyboard to Greek. So the system was unusable for me since i write in Greek.
It took a lot of time to me to understand what was the problem. Downgrading to previous 2.38 version the system became usable again.
Today upgrading kernel-firmware package the WiFi could not work at all. I also had to downgrade kernel-firmware package.
All these did not happened in the past on Slackware. This is getting frustrating one day the Slackel is working as always and the next day to become unusable because of packages upgraded on Slackware repos which had to first tested.
There are times i think i have to move to other distro's.
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Re: The system become problematic when upgrading packages. This is annoing

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I avoided upgrading kernel-firmware (and even the kernel itself) for now. I guess Slackware-Current needs more quality control.
djemos
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Re: The system become problematic when upgrading packages. This is annoing

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Finally slackware team rebuilded the kernel-firmware package. I upgraded the package. It is working fine. Its size was Kb's while in rebuild is now Mb's in size.
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