Well, I'm only managing three systems, but each has updated flawlessly with autoslackpkg since my original problem. I don't know yet what caused that blowup, but it has not repeated. Thank you, Chuck56, for posting such a helpful tool.

I'd like to try it, but...

I tried on two different computers, downloaded it a second time, tried both again... always same result. :(

The problem is it's only a tar archive. It's not actually gzipped.

Sorry about the corrupt SBo.tgz. I rebuilt it and ran "file" against the new package:
I reposted the SBo file at: https://www.go4it2day.com/downloads/...arch-1_SBo.tgz

Hope that works better. I'm headed out for the morning for some fun in the snow and will check back later this afternoon.

I don't use "tools" like these, but I do like seeing people use their creative side and reading about what they are creating.

I have one comment, and it's not about your work, but I think that technically you're not supposed to use the _SBo $TAG on packages that you are distributing. I just don't want to see you get yelled at by Willy :D (J/K, Willy wouldn't yell at you). But I think that just to be on the safe side, you should probably change the $TAG in your script.

Keep Hacking!

Lawsuit incoming! :rolleyes:

autoslackpkg - a way to automate slackpkg
 

Hi there, any plans for grub?
Since it takes whatever kernels are installed, it could be as simple as
Saying the target might have to be configured.

That's how it works here. Perhaps more experts folks could step in and add hints?

I've never used GRUB so that makes it a bit tough for me to script. I'm not ruling it out just waiting to see if the script gains more traction and users.

You're right! I plan to submit the script to SBo, eventually.

I still got the same problem, which seemed to be I can't download from that site with a normal web browser... used wget, then the package worked. I ran autoslackpkg and it said too many arguments (but I had written zero of them)... default behaviour should be a sumamry... preferably also a manual (man) page. After typing 'autslackpkg --help' then more arguments, I'm just at a loss how to use it...

My site is using mod_deflate and I didn't have the no-gzip setting for the downloads directory. It should be fixed now. Compressing already compressed files is bad form on my part.

Not sure what the "too many arguments" error is all about. Try: autoslackpkg -h overview

If that doesn't work maybe the wget download was wonky and needs a redo.

I.e., when one only types 'autoslackpkg' (no arguments) zero arguments is not too many arguments so shouldn't say that rather than perhaps giving the overview--what almost all commands do (or otherwise kind of troll you by saying what to type for help then forcing you type that just to get an idea what it's about... it's good if they give an overview if there are no arguments and a longer overview if you add '-h' or '--help,' but overviews aren't going to be different there's no reason to make you type an argument than just make it the default output when you're not telling it to do anything.)

I wonder if there's something in your shell environment that might be in play. Here's what I see when I enter "autoslackpkg"

I think you're right; sorry (got the normal output, you showed above, on my server; ) should've posted this full output I got on my laptop, actually.

However I haven't really started using it yet, because apparently the default is install packages one doesn't have installed--like X11 on a virtual private server (VPS, don't want them installed, unused, not always enough room)--and 'slackpkg clean-system'--which would remove everything I built from SlackBuilds.org/etc. I'd guess there's a way to disable/alter that behaviour.

That's where your /etc/slackpkg/blacklist comes into play. You can exclude X11 files, SBo files and others from consideration.