[Slackbuilds-users] sboutils -- small tools to interact with SBo

[Petar Petrov]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 15:42, Erich Ritz <erich.public at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Petar,
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, August 5th, 2022 at 4:29 AM, Petar Petrov <slackalaxy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > dear All,
> >
> > after a year away from Slackware, I am happy to be back, using it as
> > my main distro. I am slowly taking up the maintenance of my
> > SlackBuilds where I left off, and I hope to resubmit soon the ones
> > that had to be removed from 15.0.
> >
> > I would like to ask your opinion on a small pet-project of mine:
> > https://github.com/slackalaxy/sboutils
> >
> > There are three tools written in BASH:
> > sboask: interact with SBo, showing information about the SlackBuilds
> > sboset: help when a new SlackBuild is prepared
> > sborun: semi-automatically runs a SlackBuild
> >
> > Feedback is very welcome and I am open to suggestions and ideas. If
> > you are willing to give the tools a try, I will very much appreciate
> > the testing. Most of all, I will be grateful if someone is interested
> > to take a look at the scripting itself and give their comments. I
> > accept criticism.
> > I tried to make the README as detailed as possible, so even if you do
> > not want to try these, you can at least see what the idea is.
> >
> > You can reach me by email. I also hang out in IRC as ppetrov^
> >
> > I will probably post a thread on LQ, but decided to notify you first.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Petar
>
> Looks interesting; I may check it out.  In particular it looks like a much nicer way of interacting with hoorex (which I have installed but have hardly ever used).
>
> Since you already have a dependency (hoorex) have you considered / are you aware of sbolint and sbopkglint (https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbo-maintainer-tools/)?  You could optionally run sbopkglint after sborun builds a package (if it's installed on the system).  Not sure how many features you want to add... projects always run the risk of feature bloat.
>
> Erich

hi Erich,

yes, it is a wrapper around hoorex, among other things. Tim Dickson
just told me about sbopkglint and it seems like a good idea to call
it. I doubt sboutils will ever become a "feature rich" set of tools,
for now I want to make sure it works fine. Drawing a parallel with
CRUX, sboask tries to mimic prt-get, but without its major feature --
automated package installation from ports. sboset is something like
prtcreate, while sborun is similar to pkgmk. Anyway, thanks for the
tips :)

best,

Petar