Create and maintain a local mirror of a remote rsync directory. Use this method to update Slackware.

up.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# create and maintain a local mirror of a remote rsync directory
# ex. rsync://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/dists/sid/
# run daily in cron '0 2 * * * /path/to/update.sh > /dev/null 2>&1'
# strykar <strykar@hotmail.com> date 1109945833


# define local mirror path and exclude.txt, a newline list like: *.txt
# do not add anything to the _targetpath dir, it will get deleted the next sync
targetpath='/root/updates'
pathexclude='/root/exclude.txt'

# 'rysnc -a' implies '-rlptgoD' do not enable compression
options="-avh \
        --stats \
        --no-motd \
        -F --exclude-from $pathexclude \
        --delete-after \
        --delete-excluded"

# rsync binary
rsyncbin='/usr/bin/rsync'

# remote rsync://dir path, this must end with a /  do not use /* or rsync://
targetdest='rsync.osuosl.org/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/'

# Search for new remote updates, delete stale local files/dir, rsync remote dir+sub-dir
$rsyncbin $options rsync://$targetdest $targetpath
printf '\nRsync complete! Verifying signatures.....\n\n'
sleep 2


# comment the lines below if called from cron
# _targetpath now contains latest Slackware security updates, verify their signatures
# [<security@slackware.com> 1024D/40102233] http://www.slackware.com/gpg-key
/usr/bin/gpg --verify-files $targetpath/*.asc
printf "\n...Done! You could now try: upgradepkg --install-new $targetpath/*.txz\n\n"
exit 0