[Slackbuilds-users] suggestion for READMEs

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Thu Oct 22 00:22:12 UTC 2015


> graphics/paraview and academic/Xyce both have fancy "web 2.0" download
> pages, I don't seem to be able to download the sources with either wget
> or curl.
> 
> Maybe the maintainers of these packages could add a note to the
> READMEs, saying "sbopkg can't automatically download the source, it
> must be downloaded with a javascript-capable browser", something like
> that. Precedent for this would be the development/jdk README.

Fixed in my branch

> Maybe also would be a nice thing to add to the submitter guidelines at
> http://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/: "If the source can't be downloaded
> non-interactively (e.g. with wget), please make a note of this in your
> README."

sbopkg or any automatic tools are not really officially supported
according to our HOWTO page based on SBo's original workflow, you must
download the source manually



-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

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