[Slackbuilds-users] New orphans

[J. Milgram]

Yes of course, that's the easy way. Thanks!

On 7/26/26 15:07, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> Just threw together a quick bash for loop that can check that for you. 
> You just need to have the SBo repo synced to your computer and point 
> it there.
>
> My repo is at ~/sbo-git, but sbopkg users would also have it 
> /var/lib/sbopkg/SBo/15.0/ and I'm sure other SBo building software 
> have it stored somewhere on the computer.
>
> for i in $(grep orphaned ~/sbo-git/*/*/*.info | cut -d/ -f3); do ls 
> /var/log/packages/$i-* 2> /dev/null; done
>
> In doing so, I actually found that iniparser exists in both Slackware 
> and SBo and it's older than Slackware's version (and hasn't been 
> updated since 2017). It should probably be removed.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 11:39 AM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users 
> <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
>
>     As a way to drum up responses, I wonder if it'd be easy to extend
>     sbocheck to flag currently installed packages that are marked as
>     orphans... the idea being that if you have it installed, it's likely
>     you'll want to see it maintained.
>
>     I happened to see a package I use on the list, so I'll take it.
>     But it
>     was dumb luck that I noticed it.
>
>
>     On 7/25/26 06:11, B. Watson wrote:
>     >
>     > At this point, as of the update a few minutes ago, we have 10170
>     > SlackBuilds in the repo. And 1665 of them are orphaned due to being
>     > unmaintained. That's 16% (or 1/6th) of the repo...
>     >
>     > I encourage everyone to look through the list of orphaned builds and
>     > see if there's anything there that looks interesting and/or useful.
>     > Anything you find, you can take maintenance of without even
>     asking or
>     > telling anyone.
>     >
>     > The list:
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