Keeping up to date

[cwilling]

I'm using conty on Slackware64 to run Steam without having to convert to multilib. It works really well (including sound) and detected & used an attached PS3 controller, so all good. Thanks.

However I'm concerned about keeping conty's own software up to date. Since it's based on Arch Linux, I tried running pacman but that failed with:

chris@d8:~$ conty.sh pacman
Running Conty

error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: /var/lib/pacman/)

I guess while conty is under active development, I can just download the latest version whenever there's a new download. However they'll be fewer & fewer as everything becomes stable. Therefore, how to keep conty's built in packages up to date?

[Kron4ek]

Well, i'm going to upload new releases with up-to-date packages at least once every two weeks (maybe even more often).

Updating using pacman is not possible as the squashfs image inside Conty is read-only, so the only way to update it is to recreate it. This is how you can do this:

git clone https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty
sudo ./create-arch-bootstrap.sh
./create-conty.sh

create-arch-bootstrap.sh will download the latest Arch boostrap and install/update all packages (you can even install your own set of packages if you edit the script). Root rights are required for this step.

create-conty.sh will create a squashfs image from the boostrap obtained with the previous script and will create ready-to-use conty.sh.

As a result, you will get Conty with updated packages inside it.

p.s. These packages are required for the scripts to work properly: wget tar gzip squashfs-tools

[cwilling]

OK, that sounds good. Thanks.

[edit] I just ran your instructions for creating a conty.sh, and the building & testing all went well.