ChangeLog

• 3.0 - 2024-11-22
  • sbocheck: Use --nopull to check for updated SlackBuilds without updating the tree
  • sbofind: Use --reverse to check for installed reverse dependencies
  • Add setting CLASSIC: turn on BUILD_IGNORE and RSYNC_DEFAULT, and disable output added post-sbotools
  • Fix some –help verbiage

sbotools3

Note: this repository was named sbotools3 for a brief period in late 2024.

• 1.1 - 2024-11-03
  • Bugfix: incorrect variable name caused sboupgrade to rebuild when unneeded.
• 1.0 - 2024-11-01
  • Change the git branch to match the Slackware version, or to a user-configured branch
  • Change the default URLs to support Slackware 15.0 and use git repositories
  • Use rsync default mirrors with RSYNC_DEFAULT (except for -current)
  • Detect build number changes and optionally upgrade
  • Detect and report out-of-tree _SBo SlackBuilds with sbocheck
  • Save any build options when running a SlackBuild
  • Install bash completions; zsh completions have been updated
  • Install a default configuration file; tweak sboconfig to play somewhat nicely with it
  • Fix making -compat32 packages for non-i486 SlackBuilds
  • Fix building -compat32 packages from templates

Historical Changes

Note: pink-mist/sbotools was the home of sbotools development during this time.

• Post-2.7 - 2019
  • Add and install zsh completions
• 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