sbotools

sbotools provides a ports-like interface to slackbuilds.org.

Changes

• 2.7 - 2019-04-28

  • Actually fix the sbofind -e bug #71

• 2.6 - 2019-04-27

  • Compatibility with new perl versions where you need to escape { in regexp #75 #77 #78
  • Add a --tries 5 option when downloading from sbosrcarch, which is a saner limit than the default of 20. #79
  • Change sboclean options --clean-dist and --clean-work to shorter forms #52
  • Add limited -current support using ponce's SBo repo for -current #73
  • Fix bug with sboinstall --reinstall -r #72
  • Fix bug with sbofind -e #71

• 2.5 - 2018-02-14

  • Document download behaviour #66
  • Remake sbosnap and sboremove to have OO semantics
  • Strip -compat32 from slackbuild names when looking them up #65
  • Optimise searching in sbofind

• 2.4 - 2017-05-18

  • Rewrite sboremove from the ground up so it relies less on global state
  • Fix for parsing README with useradd/groupadd commands which span lines #57
  • Add --reinstall option to sboinstall #58
  • Exit with error when sbosnap fails to sync with a repo #61
  • Add version information to sbofind output #60

• 2.3 - 2017-01-21

  • Bugfix for parsing .info files with \ among the separators #55

• 2.2 - 2017-01-17

  • Bugfix for parsing .info files with trailing whitespace after a value #54

• 2.1 - 2017-01-14

  • Internals:
    • Adding internal documentation
    • Extract code to submodules for easier separation of concerns
  • New features:
    • Support for templates for installing things with specified options #38
    • Display other README files if the slackbuild comes with them #49
  • Bugfixes
    • sboinstall/sboremove disagreeing about a package being installed #44
    • sbocheck and sboupgrade misinterpreting version strings #45
    • parsing .info files without leading space on second line #46
    • local git repo gets partially chowned to root #47
    • stop excluding .tar.gz files when rsyncing #53

• 2.0 - 2016-07-02

  • Major new features

    • LOCAL_OVERRIDES setting

      Allows to keep a directory with local slackbuild dirs that will override whatever is found in the regular repository. #8 #13 #14 #15 #19 #20

    • SLACKWARE_VERSION setting

      Allows to specify the slackware version to sync from SBo. Previously only the version in your /etc/slackware-version was used for this, and if that had gotten updated in -current, you'd have needed to wait both for a new version of sbotools, as well as SBo to get the new repository online before sbotools would work for you again. #19

    • REPO setting

      This will override the SLACKWARE_VERSION setting. It's used to specify an absolute URL for the SBo repository you want to sync with. #6 #19 #27

    • Use sbosrcarch source archive if download fails #7 #19 #24

    • sboupgrade --all option to upgrade everything listed by sbocheck. #9 #19

    • Travis CI integration

      Every push will now cause the test-suite to be run. #18

    • Hundreds of new unit-tests. #18 #19 #23 #24 #25 #27 #28 #31 #32 #33 #35 #41 #43

    • sbofind will now also use tags if they're available #37

  • Minor/bugfixes/documentation fixes
    • Use system perl when running and installing sbotools.
    • sbocheck output changed. #10 #13 #20
    • Better debug messages on errors. #16
    • manpage fixes. #17
    • sboupgrade handles dependencies better. #12 #28
    • Update bundled Sort::Versions to 1.62.
    • sboinstall/upgrade/sbocheck: small bugfixes. #21 #35 #41 #43
    • sbosnap: display download progress, update git trees better. #26 #27

• 1.9 - 2015-11-27

  • Make it compatible with perls newer than 5.18
  • Lots of code cleanup
  • Rewrite build-queue code. #2
  • Fix issue when TMP is set. #4
  • Fix various bugs related to cleanup code
  • Change location of website
  • Fix downloading of multiple sources in newer slackbuilds. #5