3.3

This release does not have much in the way of feature addition, instead focusing on under-the-hood reliability improvements:

• In line with the SBO_HOME changes in version 3.2, all scripts except for sboconfig will exit if incorrect configuration options are detected
• Build.pm: Remove the temporary directory for tee in case of signal
• Repo.pm: Check for local repo similarity to SBo rather than solely relying on SLACKBUILDS.TXT
• Wrap most variable-length onscreen messages, prompts and error reports from sbotools at 72 characters

If you are experiencing "cannot be parsed" errors with an upstream SBo repository, this should now be fixed:

• Bugfix: When parsing info files, sanitize them for whitespace, unwanted lines, quotes and backslashes

With the changes to local repo detection rendering it redundant, sbosnap was replaced with a compatibility symlink to sbocheck. sboconfig and sbocheck saw a few changes:

• sboconfig: Permit versions "X.Y+" and "current" for SLACKWARE_VERSION; leave more informative error messages
• sboconfig: Use --reset to restore all default settings
• sbocheck: Before fetching the repo, prompt the user if the desired branch does not exist

Finally, build number detection has been improved, resulting in performance gains for sbocheck.

Thank you to @Geremia and @pandom79 for reports #18 and #19!

3.2.1

3.2.1 is a quick bugfix release for GPG verification with sboinstall and sboupgrade when using a custom URL.

For the other changes since version 3.1, please see the Version 3.2 release notes.

3.2

This latest version of sbotools contains one new feature:

• Optionally verify git commits and rsync pulls; set GPG_VERIFY to TRUE

Like slackpkg, sbotools-3.2 can add public keys to the root keyring. Missing keys have their information displayed and are added only upon user prompt.

Another area of focus was improving usability when SLACKBUILDS.TXT goes missing or git fetches go wrong. Relying less on SLACKBUILDS.TXT is a goal for the next version, but the following changes to Repo.pm have gone in:

• Prompt for file regeneration if SLACKBUILDS.TXT does not exist instead of displaying the cryptic /usr/sbo/repo exists and is non-empty error
• Remove the antiquated migrate_repo() subroutine, which could potentially eat the GPG log
• Offer to retry failed git fetch

A few bugfixes are in as well, the older and more important of which relate to bad sbotools.conf settings. Although sboconfig does its own linting, editing the file directly is probably a more intuitive means of changing settings for most. Linting capabilities may be expanded further in the future.

• Lint the value of SBO_HOME before running anything other than sboconfig (particularly, using a relative path could leave stray copies of the repository all over the file system)
• Do not crash for improper values of SLACKWARE_VERSION
• sbocheck properly reports version differences between LOCAL_OVERRIDES and the SBo repository

Other changes include:

• sbocheck: Do not use compact formatting when CLASSIC mode is on
• Utill.pm: Read sbotools.hints only once, and allow multiple optional dependency specifications for the same script

Last but not least, a goal of this fork has been to improve the documentation. The pod material for the SBO::Lib::* modules has been edited for style and accuracy, and development-oriented man pages are now installed to section 3.

Thanks are due to @dchmelik for reporting the SLACKWARE_VERSION error, to @Charadon for requesting development documentation and to Slack Coder for proposing GPG verification.

3.1

It's a little late for everyone's python-3.12 rebuild on -current and a little early for the Slackware 15.1 release, but sbotools-3.1 is here all the same.

The standout new feature this time around is the addition of a configuration file in /et/sbotools/sbotools.hints, which can blacklist scripts and notify sbotools of any desired optional dependencies on a per-script basis (before or after building). Not sure if, say, libiscsi can actually be removed from the system? Wonder no more. sboremove and sbofind -R honor sbotools.hints.

Aside from that, sbofind now takes more than one search term, sboinstall --mass-rebuild will rebuild all in-tree _SBO packages on the system (resumable in case of failure or stoppage) and the handling of the next Slackware version has been shored up for when the time comes. sbocheck has more compact output, the documentation now includes a summary sbotools.1 page and there are also a handful of bugfixes.

• sbofind: Allow multiple search terms
• Add a summary sbotools(1) man page with executive summaries and a startup guide
• sboinstall: Use --mass-rebuild to rebuild all non-compat32 SlackBuilds
• sboconfig: Fix incorrect misconfiguration warnings
• sbocheck: More compact output.
• sbotools.hints: User-specified blacklist and optional dependency requests
• Bugfix: Prevent undefined build number checks with a local override directory
• Bugfix: Add a missing git pull for custom git branches
• sboinstall: Use a resume file for --mass-rebuild
• Clarify LOCAL_OVERRIDES documentation
• Detect and handle next version (currently 15.1) more effectively
• Adopt the MIT License

3.0

This is the third release for the pghvlaans fork, and the first under the name sbotools. It includes a handful of new features, most notably including a "Classic Mode" for users who are interested in a look-and-feel more similar to sbotools-2.7.

• sbocheck: Use --nopull to check for updated SlackBuilds without updating the tree
• sboremove: Remove undocumented nointeractive option
• sbofind: Use --reverse to check for installed reverse dependencies
• Add setting CLASSIC; turn on BUILD_IGNORE and RSYNC_DEFAULT, and disable output added after sbotools-2.7
• Fix some --help verbiage

1.1

This is a bugfix release:

• Incorrect variable name caused sboupgrade to rebuild when unneeded.

My apologies for any inconvenience.

1.0

This is the initial release of sbotools3, the continuation of sbotools.

A debt of gratitude is owed to the original author, Jacob Pipkin, longtime maintainer Andreas Guldstrand and major contributor Luke Williams. This software would not exist without their efforts.

sbotools has gone without commits for a number of years. During this time, the default URL for release Slackware beyond 14.2 became unusable, and building compat32 and 32-bit packages on multilib systems stopped working for nearly all SBo SlackBuilds. Both of these issues have been fixed in sbotools3.

• Bugfix: 15.0-compatible collection of default URLs
• Bugfix: Build non-i486 compat32 packages
• Bugfix: Build compat32 packages from template

Nonetheless, this repository was originally a simple fork adding a feature: Saving previously-used build options to be shown to the user when installing a SlackBuild again. In that spirit, the main focus of sbotools3 has been to implement new functionality, some of which was originally planned by @pink-mist.

• Use a customizable git branch to clone the local repository
• New git-based default URLs, with the option to use default rsync URLs instead
• Optionally upgrade on build increments and report out-of-tree SlackBuilds
• Save build options and offer to re-use them
• Install bash completions to go with the existing zsh completions