[Slackbuilds-users] Future Build Scripts

[Grissiom]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 16:10, Eric Hameleers <eha at alienbase.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Darrell Anderson wrote:
>
>  When 13.0 is released, will the slackbuilds.org build scripts continue
>> supporting the older tgz format, the newer txz format, or the option to use
>> either?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S. I'm not a member of the list.
>>
>> Darrell Anderson
>> http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/
>>
>
> It's really quite simple Darrell:
>
> We are a site that hosts SlackBuild scripts, not packages. It is not about
> supporting any particular package format. If you want to use the old .tgz
> packages, then by all means edit the last line of the script and change the
> extension of the package which is going to be created. These scripts are not
> set in concrete.
>
> When we start adding scripts for Slackware 13.0 in our repository, you can
> expect that they will (or should) support *all* of Slackware 13.0's features
> - which includes the new package formats. When we sign off a script after
> our internal QA round we will have tested it on a full install of Slackware.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>
The problem becomes more clear when we know SBo only host scripts but not
packages and people can edit them when they feel disappointed. My suggestion
is add a FMT variable like this:

FMT=${FMT:-tgz}
...
/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$FMT

So users don't need to modify the script to change the compression
algorithm.(As local modifications will lost after every rsync...)

-- 
Cheers,
Grissiom
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