Hello! Peter you are correct regarding how to upgrade a package for Slackware. I've done it several times on every single release I've run.
However I believe the libraries that the version of Git we now need for Coreboot, are some what advanced versus the ones for the version that was installed on my development (regular system). I've gone ahead and downloaded the source for both Git, and the compression tool needed to extract the supplied source code. Naturally my tools to make the package are appropriate for the distribution version on it, and not for the test system.
I first created the compression tool that the tar file would need to use to extract that source tar file.
So to make the package, I then extracted the regular tar file from what was supplied, and compressed it using the normal Gzip one. Then from there it was a simple step to run the script file to make the package. Of course it complained that the regular git program was installed. I removed it, and started all over again. The package is still being made. The system is still at work making the package.
Group we need to set up a page which states the absolute minimum needed for the tools to work to retrieve things.
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