sbotest

sbotest is a reverse dependency build tester based on the sbotools library.

This sbotools companion script was written with script maintainers in mind: Easily build and test scripts with their reverse dependencies in a single command. Maintain an archive for built dependencies and keep it up-to-date with sbotest –archive-rebuild.

sbotest is configured separately from sbotools. See the contents of /etc/sbotest, or run sbotest config and sbotest hints to set options from the command line.

See the man page for more information about options and settings!

Trying sbotest

sbotest is not quite ready for a version release, which needs to wait for sbotools-3.7. In the meantime, please follow these steps if you would like to try sbotest:

• Use sbotools-git-slackbuild to upgrade sbotools to version 20250630-4a2fbc9 at the oldest.
• Clone the sbotest repository.
• From the root directory, run ./tools/source_to_slackbuild.sh.
• Run the SlackBuild in slackbuild/sbotest.

Issues and requests are welcome; please indicate the most recent commit with the output of:

git log | head -n 1

Acknowledgments

Jacob Pipkin, Luke Williams and Andreas Guldstrand are the original authors of sbotools.

B. Watson is the author and maintainer of sbo-maintainer-tools.

Disclaimer

sbotest was designed and intended to be run in a build-testing environment, such as a virtual machine or a Docker image. Using sbotest on a general-purpose Slackware installation is unsupported and unadvisable.