[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: [Fish-users] fish 3.6.1 released

Luna Jernberg droidbittin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 1 08:38:01 UTC 2023


Not a joke but the latest fish is now Slackbuilded for Slackware 15
and current: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/fish/

https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/system/fish?h=15.0&id=bf2e135cd95a09201732889c065410a760f49e6c



On 3/26/23, Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attaching an updated working Slackbuild package :)
>
> Might need some of you more advance Slackbuilders to mentor me, for
> bigger changes however and read the Wiki pages that Dave linked me
> (will take care of that when i have more energy having a cold at the
> moment, but this one works for me on current and should work on 15.0 i
> hope
>
> On 3/25/23, B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Luna Jernberg wrote:
>>
>>> Alright, have to learn more about how Slackbuilds work but maybe i
>>> will after that, not exactly sure how doinst.sh scripts and all works
>>> yet, should think about it, or maybe someone else thats more
>>> experienced and have time can take it over?
>>
>> Actually, I just tried building fish-3.6.1 with the existing
>> SlackBuild (with 'export VERSION=3.6.1' in the environment) and it
>> builds fine and seems to create a working package.
>>
>> So if you're considering taking over this build, it should be a
>> minimal amount of work for you: you'd just update VERSION and BUILD in
>> the script, and VERSION, DOWNLOAD, MD5SUM in the .info file.
>>
>> After doing that, you'd want to actually install and run the new
>> version of fish and make sure it works correctly. I don't use fish,
>> so I don't know all of what constitures "correctly"... but it at least
>> seems to give me a shell where I can type commands, and "help" brings
>> up a browser (which was highly unexpected by me, I thought it'd just
>> print some information to the terminal, like bash does). So it passes
>> at least 'basic functionality' tests.
>>
>


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