[Slackbuilds-users] Template updates, 20261004

[phalange at komputermatrix.com]

These are nice improvements, much appreciated.

On 2026-10-04 04:51, B. Watson wrote:
> Announcing: New updates to the SBo build templates.
> 
> We thought about holding this back until the Slackware 16.0 release,
> but we decided it's useful for whatever remaining time 15.0 has, too.
> 
> As always, you can get the templates here:
> 
> https://slackbuilds.org/templates/
> 
> ...or by doing this:
> 
> git clone git://git.slackbuilds.org/templates.git
> 
> What does this mean for your SlackBuild scripts? For existing scripts,
> nothing yet. As you update your scripts, we encourage you to modify 
> them
> to align with the new template, but we don't expect everyone to update
> all their scripts *just* to make them match the new stuff.
> 
> For totally new scripts that aren't updates of existing ones, please
> base them on the new template. For now, we're not actually going
> to enforce this, but eventually (probably after the Slackware 16.0
> release), we will add new checks to sbolint to make it complain about
> outdated template code.
> 
> The most important changes:
> 
> - We now have not one but two rust templates. One for builds that
>   will list dozens of .crate files in DOWNLOAD, and a rust-vendored
>   template (with support scripts) for those who prefer to "vendor"
>   the required sources and have the ability to host a tarball on
>   some web server. The support scripts are cargo-mkvendored.sh
>   for rust-vendored-template, and gen_crate_dependencies.sh
>   for rust-template.
> 
> - The new find/chmod template that was discussed on this list a
>   while back is finally implemented. It's faster than the old
>   template, and also more accurate (doesn't trip over broken
>   symlinks, and catches "weird" permissions like 501 or 701).
> 
> - No more "chown -R root:root ." after tarball extraction.
>   Instead, the tarball is extracted with --no-same-owner, which
>   creates the files as root:root in the first place.
> 
> - rubygem-template no longer installs file in /usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
>   with incorrect permissions/ownership. It also now uses the SLKCFLAGS,
>   instead of setting them and then not passing them to 'gem install'.
> 
> - All the templates now use a new variable PKGDOC, to help avoid
>   repetitious code. What used to be written as this:
> 
>     mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
>     cp -a \
>       <documentation> \
>       $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
>     cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > 
> $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
> 
>   is now written:
> 
>     PKGDOC=$PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
>     mkdir -p $PKGDOC
>     cp -a \
>       <documentation> \
>       $PKGDOC
>     cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKGDOC/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
> 
>   ...which is more maintainable (see "DRY Principle").
> 
> - In the same vein, the section that sets SLKCFLAGS based on ARCH
>   has been condensed.
> 
> - Some extra commentary, e.g. a section explaining "make -j1".
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