sbopkg access
 

I have been using sbopkg for quite some time to get builds for -current. A month or two ago I started having problems -

fatal: unable to connect to slackbuilds.org:
slackbuilds.org[0: 208.94.237.149]: errno=Connection refused

in sbopkg.conf I have

REPO_BRANCH=${REPO_BRANCH:-master}
REPO_NAME=${REPO_NAME:-SBo}

after some searching I have found -

REPO_BRANCH=${REPO_BRANCH:-current}
REPO_NAME=${REPO_NAME:-SBo-git}

I was able to get a build for Clamav from there. Just so I understand this correctly is the repository using REPO_BRANCH=${REPO_BRANCH:-master} still being used for current? Is the SBo-git the new -current repository? Please let me know.

Also, many thanks to all of those maintaining the repository(ies) for your hard work to make life easy for folks like me.

there is no official repository for current so you can't use
that setting makes sbopkg use the git master branch of SBo and that is not guaranteed to work for current whenever toolchain/libraries change there, diverging from the stable release.

to say it all, there is actually a brief period of time, when the new Slackware version is about to be released (when betas and rcs start to come out), in which the git master is usable with current but, in general, consider it not supported.

if you want to try an unofficial repository you should be ok with the one you just set up: remember to delete it and reclone from scratch at every update (usually once a week)
https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds...ry-with-sbopkg

note that not all the builds are patched to work with current so, assumed that you have tried them on a clean full install of current (and only in this case, no custom configurations supported), consider reporting in this topic eventual build failures.

That was fast. Thank you Ponce for the clarification. Will hollow your advice.