How to keep slackpkg to remove SlackBuilds packages installed before installing sbopkg?

Grizzly87 · 01-15-2021, 02:25 PM

Hey everyone!

I'm still brand new to Slackware, and I have a small question. I installed a few SlackBuilds packages before installing sbopkg, so if I run clean-system, those packages will be removed.

Is there any way to add these packages into the sbopkg ecosystem so they won't get removed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

ReFracture · 01-15-2021, 02:28 PM

I'd suggest installing slackpkg+ and making use of greylist at /etc/slackpkg/greylist

Anything you add to this greylist will show up when using clean-system but will not be selected for removal. Alternatively you could blacklist them in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist and they won't be visible by slackpkg at all.

bassmadrigal · 01-15-2021, 03:02 PM

slackpkg+ is probably a bit much unless you want to maintain multilib or some other 3rd-party repo.

Instead, you can simply uncomment the [0-9]+_SBo tag in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist and slackpkg will ignore any SBo packages when clean-system is ran. If you install stuff from Alien Bob, I'd recommend uncommenting the [0-9]+_alien tag as well.

ReFracture · 01-15-2021, 04:20 PM

Right, I forget that not everybody runs multilib.