[Slackbuilds-users] sbopkg and the README/.info files (REQUIRES line)

[Petar Petrov]

Quoting slakmagik <slakmagik at gmail.com>:

> On 2012-10-06 (Sat) 08:49:27 [+0700], Binh Nguyen wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:41:12 -0700
>> Phillip Warner <pc_warner at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > You could potentially add a new option to sbopkg to generate a queue
>> > on the fly by recursively making use of the REQUIRES in the .info file
>> > of the selected SlackBuild and its respective required slackBuilds and
>> > so on.  I wouldn't recommend building directly from this.  Rather the
>> > queue would have to be processed as they are now.  In the GUI a
>> > "Generate queue" option could be in the menu while viewing any
>> > SlackBuild.  The cli could use maybe a 'Q' and a filename to save the
>> > queue to.
>> >
>> > --phillip
>>
>>
>> If you look at the syntax of sbopkg queuefiles, it's not just simply a
>> list of dependencies but ON/OFF flags, dep options, etc. So we cannot
>> just utilize REQUIRES like that but some modifications are needed.
>>
>> Ideally, I think Mauro Giachero's queuefiles git repo should be
>> maintained in parallel with slackbuilds.org git repo. It would only be
>> updated when new SlackBuilds be added though. With the new REQUIRES,
>> maintaining a repo like that would not be so difficult as before I
>> believe.
>>
>> -- Binh
>
> 1st, I just sent the initial mail on this to both lists because it was
> following up on the release announcement (I should have actually posted
> both my 'oops' mails as actual follow-ups to it - sorry about that) but
> I don't want to clutter the slackbuilds list with any more
> sbopkg-specific stuff than I already have. ;) If there's any more
> discussion I'd direct it solely to the sbopkg list.
>
> As far as the deps, that's kind of the third rail for me. Slackware ==
> no-dep-handling. I have no interest in putting anything into the core
> sbopkg that handles deps or generates queue files or whatever. It
> processes them, but that's it. So I think Binh's correct - it should
> make it easier for Mauro to generate his queuefile repo or for others to
> do so if he's not still doing it but that's about it and doesn't concern
> sbopkg. I get that the new line enables the SBo website to do neat stuff
> with the hyperlinks and all and it probably makes it easier for the
> admins to check/maintain the dep list but I think those should be the
> primary uses of the field.
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hi slakmagik,

how about an option in sbopkg to automatically download the queue  
files repo of Mauro?

regards,

petar