[Slackbuilds-users] .../sbo/repo exists and is not empty. Exiting.

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, Jim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> every now and then when I run sbocheck it says
>        Updating SlackBuilds tree...
> and then nothing else happens.  Eventually, I ^C and I get
>        ^CCould not sync from https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/.
>
> But then when I try it again, I get
>        .../sbo/repo exists and is not empty. Exiting.
> (where "..." is the path to when I keep it that is not of interest).
>
> Aside from deleting the repository and downloading the whole thing again, is
> there a better way of recovering from this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>                                Jim

good day

do you have the REPO value set in the .conf file
it has been said that having it set helps stability

this is used here and has worked fine for a long time: 
REPO=https://gitlab.com/SlackBuilds.org/slackbuilds.git


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