[Slackbuilds-users] sbopkg 0.0.8rc1 testers needed

[Antoine NONYME]

Le Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:31:59 +0200,
Antoine NONYME <mickeytintincolle at yahoo.fr> a écrit :

> Le Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:48:23 -0400,
> Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com> a écrit :
> 
> > I have added a new feature to sbopkg based on many requests -- the 
> > ability to display potential updates to installed SBo packages on
> > the user's system -- and I would like to solicit testers.  This is
> > actually a somewhat difficult feature to implement, given the fact
> > that there are slight variations on upstream version numbering,
> > package names, etc. which have to be addressed in the SlackBuilds.
> > In short, sbopkg attempts to match the
> > $PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG of each installed SBo package with
> > the $PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG of the corresponding
> > SlackBuild.  If they do not match, then there is an update.
> > However, due to the slight upstream variations mentioned
> > previously, parsing SlackBuilds and matching up the package name,
> > version number, arch, and build number is not always accurate.
> > 
> > In any event, there is a rc1 of sbopkg version 0.0.8 available for 
> > download for anyone that is interested in testing.  I have already
> > found one issue that has been fixed in svn and will be included in
> > the next release candidate, but I could really use some more
> > testers.  If you do test, please let me know of any successes or
> > problems by posting here, emailing me off list, or better yet,
> > subscribing and posting to the sbopkg mailing list.  The problems
> > will likely manifest themselves in the update list -- either
> > incorrectly marking something as a potential update, or missing an
> > update that should be listed, or displaying packages with extraneous
> > characters in the package name or version number (i.e. such as
> > double quotes or something) which then results in a false positive.
> > 
> > Anyway, enough rambling.  The source tarball and package for
> > 0.0.8rc1 are available here:
> > 
> > http://code.google.com/p/sbopkg/downloads/list
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> 
> First, thanks for sbopkg, it is far better that my 17-lines
> slackmerge script ;) .
> I tested SBopkg 0.0.8rc2 and the package doesn't
> create /home/sbo .
> It is a bug or a feature ?
> 
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Excuse me, slackmerge doesn't do which sbopkg does .
Here is slackmerge, if you want to integrate it in sbopkg .
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