[Slackbuilds-users] Sbopkg 0.32.0 Released

alkos333 me at alkos333.net
Fri Mar 5 23:22:38 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> wrote:
> I am happy to announce that sbopkg version 0.32.0 has been released.  We
> have been working steadily since the last release to fix bugs and add a
> couple of new features.  There is one new addition to the sbopkg.conf
> configuration file, so please check out the installed sbopkg.conf.new to
> merge the change.
>
> Here is the unedited ChangeLog:
>
>  * Add several renames to 50-default renames file.
>  * Add support for UNSUPPORTED/UNTESTED packages in the SBo repo; thanks to
>    artourter for the bug report.
>  * Honor the TAG exported by the user; thanks to Matteo Bernardini for the
>    feature request.
>  * Fix issue where delete sources in package info item menu did not work in
>    some cases; thanks to artourter for the report, thanks to slakmagik for
>    the hard work in fixing this and thanks to Mauro for the review and
>    suggestions.
>  * Add the ability to skip the prompts for sbopkg's directory creations via
>    the new config file option MKDIR_PROMPT. This is useful, for example, if
>    you have some SBo/sbopkg directories on a temporary filesystem and don't
>    want to be bothered with repeated directory creation prompts. Thanks to
>    agikhan for the report.
>  * Address an issue where sbopkg could sometimes pick an older package to
>    present for installation rather than the most recent one; thanks to
>    artourter for the report.
>  * Prevent sbopkg from spitting error messages when trying to determine the
>    version of some packages (e.g. google-chrome, whose version is discovered
>    looking into the source package which can be missing). Thanks to alkos333
>    for the bug report.
>  * Add ability to temporarily change $ARCH in the 'options' submenu.
>
> Big thanks to all the sbopkg users who have pounded on this utility,
> reported bugs, and suggested enhancements.  We hope you find this
> software useful and these updates beneficial.
>
> As always, a new package and source tarball are available for direct
> download from the sbopkg project website:  http://www.sbopkg.org.
> Please report any issues to the sbopkg mailing list or, preferably, to
> the sbopkg Issue Tracker at the project's Google Code page.
>
> Thanks once again to my cohorts, Mauro Giachero and slakmagik, for their
> invaluable assistance.
>
> Enjoy!
>

Thank you so much for all the work that you've done and continue to
do.  This tool has saved me a lot of time.

http://sbopkg.googlecode.com/files/sbopkg-0.32.0-noarch-1_cng.tgz
(link from sbopkg.org) is invalid

-- 
Alex Lysenka
Bachelor of Computer Science
Operations Management & Information Systems Major
Northern Illinois University
alysenka at niu.edu


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