sbotools.hints

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NAME

sbotools.hints - script-specific hints for sbotools

DESCRIPTION

The /etc/sbotools/sbotools.hints file is used to give sbotools hints about individual scripts. Four kinds of hints are recognized:

• blacklist

• optional reverse dependencies

• automatic reverse dependency rebuilds

• test failures are ignored by sboupgrade(1)

Please note that all requests apply equally to the compat32 versions of the scripts; specific requests for compat32 scripts are unsupported.

If a script is blacklisted, it can neither be included in build queues nor removed by sboremove(1). To blacklist a script, place it on its own line with no whitespace, prepending an exclamation mark:

!javacc

Blacklist entries supersede optional dependency requests.

To ask sboupgrade(1) and sboinstall(1) to rebuild a script’s reverse dependencies upon upgrade or reinstall, place the name of the script on its own line with no whitespace, prepending a tilde:

~libmodplug

Many scripts on SlackBuilds.org have optional dependencies. To make sbotools recognize one or more optional dependencies for a script, make a space-delineated list of optional dependencies and place the name of the script at the end:

libcacard spice libiscsi qemu

Commented lines are ignored. There should not be whitespace to the left of any entry.

To ask sboupgrade(1) to ignore test failures for a script when called with --all-plus-failures, place the name of the script on its own line with no whitespace, prepending a percent sign:

%zoom-linux

sbohints(1) can also be used to interface with this file. To use a configuration directory other than /etc/sbotools, export an environment variable SBOTOOLS_CONF_DIR with an absolute path.

AUTHORS

Jacob Pipkin <jacob.pipkin (at) icloud (dot) com>

Luke Williams <xocel (at) iquidus (dot) org>

Andreas Guldstrand <andreas (dot) guldstrand (at) gmail (dot) com>

MAINTAINER

K. Eugene Carlson <kvngncrlsn (at) gmail (dot) com>