[Slackbuilds-users] best way to mass-rebuild? (w/dependencies?)

[Erich Ritz]

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On Friday, February 11th, 2022 at 2:02 AM, David O'Shaughnessy <lists at osh.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, at 3:44 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
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> >      If I want to mass-rebuild all my installed packages in one go ('at
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> > once') including w/queues, what's the best way? I thought it was
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> > sbotools, but depending what I used for end of package name (_SBo or
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> > ponce,) sbotools seemed to replace some newer versions (I upgraded and
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> > some perhaps reverted in SBo-git, unsure) with old ones.
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> One quick way:
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> sboupgrade -fz $(ls /var/log/packages/*_SBo | cut -d'/' -f5 | rev | cut -d- -f4- | rev)
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> But as you said, at present sbotools doesn't do any smart version checking, so it will offer version downgrades for things you've manually updated. That would be a nice patch for sbotools actually (no downgrades by default).
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> I'm not sure what the full solution could be if you have a mix of custom build stuff.
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Too late now, but perhaps use a different TAG for custom-built stuff (e.g. SBo_custom)?  I admit I don't do this myself...

Erich

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