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I put together a shell script which works with queuefiles and I'd like to share it with fellow Slackers. As it builds on the great work of SlackBuilds.org, sbopkg, and sbopkg-slackware-queues my thanks go out to each and everyone involved in these projects.

A short excerpt from the man page:

Quote:

sbq is a small program operating on sbopkg-style queuefiles. Given a queuefile it helps with three tasks regarding the specified applications.

Download all the source files.
Generate an mkisofs-style path-list with all the source files, and use it to make an ISO image or a tar archive for transferring the files to another host.
Install or upgrade all built packages, including any required ones.

Quick start:

Code:

# installpkg sbq-0.1-noarch-1_pdi.tgz

# <editor> /etc/sbq/sbq.conf

In the config file change REPO_BRANCH to the Slackware version you wish/use. It may be better to leave PKG_ROOT at its default value at first, but if you change it make sure the new directory exists.

Do read the man page and get a feeling of the config file, but if feeling impatient:

Code:

$ sbq -rgq

which will rsync SlackBuilds.org, generate SlackBuilds.org queuefiles, and download sbopkg-slackware-queues.

Then use the smallest generated queuefile, <slackware-version>_ham.sqf, for testing the rest of the options, eg

Code:

$ sbq -f 14.0_ham.sqf

Here are the links:
package, md5
source, md5
SlackBuild, md5

I do hope you find it useful and pray no showstopper slipped through.