[Slackbuilds-users] sboutils -- small tools to interact with SBo

[Erich Ritz]

Hi Petar,

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On Friday, August 5th, 2022 at 4:29 AM, Petar Petrov <slackalaxy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> dear All,
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> after a year away from Slackware, I am happy to be back, using it as
> my main distro. I am slowly taking up the maintenance of my
> SlackBuilds where I left off, and I hope to resubmit soon the ones
> that had to be removed from 15.0.
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> I would like to ask your opinion on a small pet-project of mine:
> https://github.com/slackalaxy/sboutils
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> There are three tools written in BASH:
> sboask: interact with SBo, showing information about the SlackBuilds
> sboset: help when a new SlackBuild is prepared
> sborun: semi-automatically runs a SlackBuild
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> Feedback is very welcome and I am open to suggestions and ideas. If
> you are willing to give the tools a try, I will very much appreciate
> the testing. Most of all, I will be grateful if someone is interested
> to take a look at the scripting itself and give their comments. I
> accept criticism.
> I tried to make the README as detailed as possible, so even if you do
> not want to try these, you can at least see what the idea is.
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> You can reach me by email. I also hang out in IRC as ppetrov^
>
> I will probably post a thread on LQ, but decided to notify you first.
>
> best,
>
> Petar

Looks interesting; I may check it out.  In particular it looks like a much nicer way of interacting with hoorex (which I have installed but have hardly ever used).

Since you already have a dependency (hoorex) have you considered / are you aware of sbolint and sbopkglint (https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/sbo-maintainer-tools/)?  You could optionally run sbopkglint after sborun builds a package (if it's installed on the system).  Not sure how many features you want to add... projects always run the risk of feature bloat.

Erich