[Slackbuilds-users] sbotools maintainership?

Matt Egger matt.egger at gmail.com
Wed Nov 20 11:42:13 UTC 2024


On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 5:32 AM Habs <gen-bch at useyouresp.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, K. Eugene Carlson wrote:
>
> > Hello, all,
> >
> > The sbotools version on SlackBuilds Online has had no commits for over
> five
> > years and is no longer compatible with release Slackware (the default
> > repository doesn't match and compat32 builds are broken for almost
> > everything).
> >
>
> Bringing it all 'up to date' so to speak, would be a good idea of course
> in any case.
>
> That said, I'm not clear what this 'no longer compatible ...' means
> exactly - what doesn't work and what would I need to do to see that it
> doesn't work ?
>
> For instance, reasonably regularly I run sbofind sbocheck sboinstall  and
> it all seems to work ... at least for the stuff I use.
>

with the default repository issue. If you run sbosnap without specifying
REPO in
/etc/sbotools/sbotools.conf, I believe it defaults to ponce's repository,
even on a
15.0 install.

I'm curious about the compat32 issue as well. What is that about?

I missed sbotools3 getting added to SBo. Thanks for for this Eugene!

-Matt
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