[Slackbuilds-users] Rebuilding all SBo packages on new system

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 12:09 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, David O'Shaughnessy wrote:
>
> > I would get the list of packages from the old machine:
> > packages=$(ls /var/log/packages/*_SBo | cut -d'/' -f5 | rev | cut -d-
> > -f4- | rev)
> > and then feed that into slackrepo on the new machine:
> >
> > slackrepo build $packages
> > (or slackrepo install if you want to install everything).
>
> Dave,
>
>    Finally made time to get the new desktop up and running, and took your
> advice to get a list of installed packages.
>
> > If there are any build customisations you've made then it would be
> > worthwhile looking at the HINTFILE system that slackrepo uses. A default
> > set for slackrepo can be found at:
> > https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrepo-hints
>
>    I don't see anything in the *.hint files I've checked so far (e.g.,
> audacity in Audio). They all seem to point to moving the hint file to a new
> directory. This from
> <
> https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrepo-hints/tree/master/ponce/default_hintfiles/14.2
> >
>
>    Am I looking in the wrong directory?
>

Those would be the default hintfiles for ponce's repo. You'd want the ones
out of SBo/default-hintfiles

https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrepo-hints/blob/master/SBo/default_hintfiles/

I also have the hintfiles I've created available.

https://github.com/bassmadrigal/slackrepo-hintfiles-14.2

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