[Slackbuilds-users] Tool for managing SBo packages

[Aaditya Bagga]

Thanks, I seem to have missed these resource(s)..
Had a small look at sbo_tools, the objectives seem to be similar :)
(Currently concentrating on bug-fixes and refinements)

On 01/13/2014 09:54 AM, Antonio Hernández Blas wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Aaditya Bagga 
> <aaditya_gnulinux at zoho.com <mailto:aaditya_gnulinux at zoho.com>> wrote:
>
>     When I had to search for a package in the SlackBuilds, I went to
>     slackbuilds.org <http://slackbuilds.org> and searched for it;
>     however I have a local (git) copy of slackbuilds which I wanted to
>     search, but didnt like using the file manager to look into each
>     folder..
>
>
> sbo_tools [1] has sbo_find and sbo_wwws which can help you to search 
> for an "slackbuild", sbo_find in a local repository and sbo_wwws in 
> http://slackbuilds.org/result/
>
>     So yesterday I started writing a script to search my repository
>     for a specified package, and then added some more options like
>     viewing the info file of the package, viewing the readme, the
>     slackbuild, etc..
>
>     Then today I added more options like downloading the package,
>     build it, install/upgrade/remove, and querying installed packages.
>     (More info about its features/usage in the readme.)
>
>
> It's good to see someone doing something like this, since this means 
> that someone installed Slackware and take his/her time to *improve* 
> the situation for the installation of packages. There's others 
> projects that you can check and see if they can fit your needs or 
> maybe you can bring some new ideas [2].
>
> - Cheers
>
> [1] https://github.com/nihilismus/sbo_tools
> [2] https://github.com/nihilismus/sbo_tools#related-projects
>
> -- 
> Antonio Hernández Blas | Oaxaca, México, Mx.
> https://github.com/nihilismus | https://bitbucket.org/nihilismus | 
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>
>
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