[Slackbuilds-users] hope this isn't a stupid question

Glenn Becker glenn.becker at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 14:44:30 UTC 2020


Hi -

My understanding was that SlackBuilds were 'guaranteed' to run on -stable
rather than -current. Maybe that's wrong, or has changed?

G
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM mcmurchy1917techy via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> Hi Glenn
>
> If you're going to use slack-current as your main system why would you
> want to have slack-stable running in a VM? I would have thought you would
> have wanted to develop your SlackBuilds in a VM  machine running
> slack-current.
>
> Alex
>
> On 08/04/2020 14:43, Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I am thinking of buying a smallish laptop to dedicate to Slackware. I've
> usually done double-, triple- and occasionally more- boot machines, but my
> distro-hopping is (I think!) coming to an end.
>
> And I was wondering ... if I ran slack-current as my main system, but ran
> slack-stable in a VM, could I use the latter to work on my SlackBuilds? I'm
> by no means well-versed in what is possible or impossible with VMs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glenn Becker
>
>
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