ChangeLog

Post-Release
- Build.pm: When distcleaning, do not delete files that are needed later in the queue
- sbohints: With --query, also report scripts that are optional dependencies; more grammatical output
- Allow non-root users to call sbofind, non-destructive sbocheck, sboconfig and sbohints flags, -h and -v
  - Thanks to Slack Coder for the idea.
- Install an SBO::Lib(3) summary man page; add exit code information to the other man 3 pages
- sbocheck: Accept bundled flags (e.g. -gn)
3.4.1 - 2025-01-29
- Bugfix: Use md5sum-specific subdirectories for distfiles to avoid improper overwriting
  - Thanks to tuxuser1 for the report.
- sboclean: Adjust distfile handling to reflect new directory structure
- Bugfix: Actually remove the package-* directory
- Bugfix: DISTCLEAN should not override NOCLEAN
3.4 - 2025-01-22
- sboconfig: Run without flags or options to use an interactive menu
- sboupgrade: Do not attempt to upgrade the build queue if the requested script does not need an upgrade
- sbocheck: Display the installed build number for the build number check
- Add setting STRICT_UPGRADES: Except for override packages, only upgrade when the version or build number is higher
  - Thanks to jansucan and drbeco for the request.
- sboinstall: Use --reverse-rebuild to rebuild all reverse dependencies of a script
- sbofind: Indicate if a script is blacklisted
- sbohints: A new tool for modifying and querying the blacklist and optional dependency requests
- sboinstall: Always give a distinct warning prompt when a package without the _SBo tag would be replaced by adding it to the queue
- sboinstall: Honor the blacklist when installing from templates
- Handle circular dependency errors
- Repo.pm: More accurate warning text in case of BADSIG
3.3 - 2024-12-31
- sboconfig: Allow versions “X.Y+” and “current”; more informative error messages
  - Thanks to dchmelik for the report.
- Exit with invalid sbotools.conf parameters
- sbocheck: Before fetch, offer to exit if the git branch does not exist
- Repo.pm: Check for local repo similarity to SBo rather than relying on SLACKBUILDS.TXT
- sbosnap: Redundant; replace with a compatibility symlink
- Wrap variable-length onscreen messaging (that can’t be piped), prompts and error messages at 72 characters
- sboconfig: Use --reset to restore all default configuration values
- Build.pm: Remove temporary directory in case of signal
- Bugfix: When parsing info files, fix whitespace, unwanted lines, quotation and backslashes
  - Thanks to Geremias for the original report.
- Info.pm: Tweak build number detection for an sbocheck performance boost
3.2.1 - 2024-12-20
- Bugfix: sboinstall, sboupgrade GPG check for custom repositories (removed unneeded conditional)
3.2 - 2024-12-19
- sbocheck: Do not use compact format for CLASSIC mode
- Repo.pm: Prompt for regeneration if SLACKBUILDS.TXT is missing instead of erroring out
- Set GPG_VERIFY to TRUE to verify with gpg in case of repo fetch, sboinstall or sboupgrade
  - Thanks to Slack Coder for the idea.
- Bugfix: do not crash if sbotools.conf provides an improper value of SLACKWARE_VERSION
  - Thanks to dchmelik for the report.
- Repo.pm: Offer to retry failed git fetch
- Bugfix: sbocheck reports version differences between LOCAL_OVERRIDES and the repository
- Util.pm: Read the hints file only once; allow multiple optional dependency specs for the same script
- Lint the value of SBO_HOME before running anything other than sboconfig
  - Thanks to dchmelik for the report.
- Repo.pm: Remove antiquated subroutine migrate_repo()
- Install development man pages on SBO::Lib to man 3
  - Thanks to Charadon for the request.
3.1 - 2024-12-05
- sbofind: Allow multiple search terms
- Add a summary sbotools(1) man page with executive summaries and a startup guide
- sboinstall: Use --mass-rebuild to rebuild all non-compat32 SlackBuilds
  - Thanks to Charadon for the request.
- sboconfig: Fix incorrect misconfiguration warnings
- sbocheck: More compact output.
  - Thanks to dchmelik for the feedback.
- sbotools.hints: User-specified blacklist and optional dependency requests
- Bugfix: Prevent undefined build number checks with a local override directory
- Bugfix: Add a missing git pull for custom git branches
- sboinstall: Use a resume file for --mass-rebuild
- Clarify LOCAL_OVERRIDES documentation
- Detect and handle next version (currently 15.1) more effectively
  - Thanks to Slack Coder for the feedback.
- Adopt MIT License
  - Thanks to Slack Coder for the suggestion.
3.0 - 2024-11-22
- sbocheck: Use --nopull to check for updated SlackBuilds without updating the tree
- sboremove: Remove undocumented and dangerous --nointeractive option
- sbofind: Use --reverse to check for installed reverse dependencies
  - This feature was originally planned by Andreas Guldstrand.
- 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
  - The ability to specify a git branch was originally planned by Andreas Guldstrom.
- Change the default URLs to support Slackware 15.0 and use git repositories
- Use rsync default mirrors with RSYNC_DEFAULT (except for -current)
  - Thanks to Slack Coder for the feedback.
- Detect build number changes and optionally upgrade
  - Thanks to qunying for the request.
- Detect and report out-of-tree _SBo SlackBuilds with sbocheck
  - This feature was originally planned by Andreas Guldstrand.
- 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
  - Thanks to dcjud for the request.
- 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. Unless indicated otherwise, the changes below are thanks to Andreas Guldstrand.

Post-2.7 - 2019
- Add and install zsh completions
  - Thanks to contributor drgibbon.
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
  - Thanks to contributor pedrormjunior.
- Add a --tries 5 option when downloading from sbosrcarch, which is a saner limit than the default of 20. #79
  - Thanks to contributor 9m9.
- 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