[Slackbuilds-users] for testing - 'sbopkg' tool

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Mon Mar 24 22:18:06 EDT 2008


Phillip Warner wrote:

> You might want to consider adding a feature where you can have certain 
> vars in the SlackBuilds automatically changed after a new script is 
> downloaded.  You could use something like sed to change the defaults for 
> vars like
> ARCH
> TAG
> OUTPUT
> and maybe even some common vars like OPENGL (YES/NO?).
> Using something like this, your tool will be much more powerful.  You 
> just need to be sure you have strict rules for sed so you aren't, for 
> instance, changing a noarch program into one for powerpc, etc.


No need to use sed or anything of the sort; simply pass the desired
value on the command line when executing the build script.

-RW


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