Hi

I'm looking for an efficient way to set up a custom repository for Slackware packages. I'm planning to maintain a mixture of customized 'stock' (optimized CFLAGS, without PA depedendencies, etc.) packages and a few of my own.

What's the best way to accomplish my goal? I'm not looking for in-depth tutorials here but more of a general guidance on best practices, etc.

I'm also looking for a way to automatically track and download all updated Slackbuilds from the official Slackware mirrors and then automatically change the CFLAGS if needed. What would be the best way to accomplish that? Any recommended tools for this kind of job?

Thanks in advance.

If you want to create a package repository from a SlackBuilds collection, check this: http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/

Also, do you know about the SlackOnly project (https://slackonly.com/)? Might interest you, it aims to provide packages compiled from the scripts at SBo.

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I'm maintaining my own repository with roughly 1.300 packages and counting. I'm building my stuff in a series of KVM guests. Metadata is created with Eric Hameleers' nifty gen_repos_files.sh script. Then I'm uploading the stuff to a public server.

Cheers,

Niki

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Slack Only is looking for volunteers if you are interested.

iirc there was a command line tool a la slackpkg covering third party repos (slackonly, alienbob), does anyone know the name?

slackpkg+ ?

Like kikinovak, I use Eric Hameleers gen_repos_files.sh script to build my own repo. It works perfectly.

This is an excellent resource, and it provides packages for current as it is being developed.