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Old 09-11-2020, 03:28 AM   #16
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The SBo scripts are really only a starting point. I modify every single one to use the most recent version, run on -current, and install in ~/.local.

If anything could be improved, it is that SBo needs to rethink its strategy of targeting -stable. That worked well with yearly releases, but does not work well now.
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I find the SBo works just fine as a starting point, even with -current.
 
Old 09-11-2020, 09:55 AM   #17
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The system works well for me. All my machines run stable.
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I find the SBo works just fine as a starting point, even with -current.
I will be more blunt: if SBo were a company, its management would be replaced. Waiting for 15.0 was a failed strategy. The new management would adopt a strategy of targeting -current.
Ed
 
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Old 09-11-2020, 10:45 AM   #18
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I will be more blunt: if SBo were a company, its management would be replaced. Waiting for 15.0 was a failed strategy. The new management would adopt a strategy of targeting -current.
Ed
do you volunteer to patch, test and maintain SBo for -current throughout its development and evolution?
 
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Old 09-11-2020, 10:55 AM   #19
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do you volunteer to patch, test and maintain SBo for -current throughout its development and evolution?
No, I am too expensive.

I think that targeting -current would not be more work than targeting 1-2 stable releases per year.
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Old 09-11-2020, 11:31 AM   #20
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No, I am too expensive.
this shouldn't be an issue, since SBo contributors and maintainers do it for free
 
Old 09-11-2020, 11:49 AM   #21
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Yes:

Code:
sbopkg -V local -k -b ffmpeg.sqf
My "local" tree contains my testing tree for potential updates to my SlackBuilds.

But for actually compiling packages I use the stock SlackBuilds.org git tree (the sbopkg default).
Thank you and thanks all for the discussion. I can understand the "model" behind SlackBuilds now and seems a good trade-off. We can use it as a starting point and branch/maintain it by ourselves.

In that sense, any doc/tutorial about linking/adding a local git repo into sbopkg? I found:

Code:
$ cat /etc/sbopkg/repos.d/60-SBo-current.repo 
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN. See the README.
# Repo Branch Description Tag Tool Link CheckGPG
SBo-git current "UNSUPPORTED SBo git repository for -current" ponce git git://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds.git@current ""
Can I add a new file in that repos.d folder?
How can I point to a local directory? Like how to set the `Tool` and `Link` fields?
 
Old 09-11-2020, 11:51 AM   #22
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The current system works, no need to fix something that isn't broken.
Agreed. I'm very grateful for the work done by the good people at SBo.
 
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Old 09-11-2020, 12:30 PM   #23
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No, I am too expensive.

I think that targeting -current would not be more work than targeting 1-2 stable releases per year.
Ed
You failed so spectacularly with this offensive reply that you earned a place on my ignore list. Or prove me wrong and remove your hands from under your ass and start contributing - for free.
 
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Old 09-11-2020, 02:31 PM   #24
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Can I add a new file in that repos.d folder?
How can I point to a local directory? Like how to set the `Tool` and `Link` fields?
If I recall correctly, the sbopkg.conf file is already wired up to support the local repository; you just have to populate it (my local repository only has my own SlackBuilds):

Code:
drumz@darkstar:/var/lib/sbopkg/local $ ls
network/  system/
The hierarchy is the same as /var/lib/sbopkg/SBo/14.2/

Then you tell sbopkg to use the "local" repository instead of the default (14.2) repository by "-V local".

Of course, you could edit the configuration files to change your default repository or add more repositories.
 
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Old 09-11-2020, 03:31 PM   #25
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You failed so spectacularly with this offensive reply that you earned a place on my ignore list. Or prove me wrong and remove your hands from under your ass and start contributing - for free.
I didn't mean to offend volunteers.

I have handed to Pat quite a few bug reports and fixes over the years. I do this because I want a working OS.
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Old 09-11-2020, 04:26 PM   #26
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My thoughts on SBO

What a wonderful Tool. I watch it herd kats everyday. so I stay away from it and Do like Pat. Pull what I need.
Slack builds is great. love and use it at times. copy the scripts. Tried to put a dev Team together in 2015 to do stuff but Slackbuilds SBO did a ububtu thing let new break the stable distro. Right now slackbuild is almost obsolete NOT their fault.
It is the Slacker way. No such thing as 14.3 so lets just build our own and use the tool.

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Old 09-11-2020, 04:50 PM   #27
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I will be more blunt: if SBo were a company, its management would be replaced. Waiting for 15.0 was a failed strategy. The new management would adopt a strategy of targeting -current.
Ed
Since they never target stable. It is a field . The devs make stuff work and they dump it in the field say look it's new. But hey look Willy. We can make stuff work in Slack. Sure it will cause other to break stuff. But hey it is a dump. recycle and sort. So it has nothing to do with stable or current. It is a dump. and the dump has good stuff and trash.
And huge builds that break teams stuff. so. take a snapshot of the Dump and sort it. then build your own dump for your team the tools all the same.
And the SBO teams Tool is world class. top. The latest-est SBOPKG by far the best thing that ever happen to slackware.
 
Old 09-11-2020, 05:08 PM   #28
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I strongly advise against changing that because it will mean that when you and everybody else will send the pull requests to the maintainers or the SBo admins, for each one of them they will have to:
- test the new build;
- test the update against whatever needs it as a dependency;
- contact the respective maintainers and track their answers;
- if the maintainer is unresponsive try to find a new mantainer.
it's much more practical when these steps are done by whoever is interested in the update (and is ready to step in as a maintainer himself) and has tested it locally.
Put in your stuff on git opens this. You can filter by actual team invites. May want to learn the admin thing.
Ton of work till you filter it to the accepted team members ok you have 500 team members and they have there there own repo. So you see. your making work . By doing everyone else work. lets take SSR for example slackers deal with His git for years. I am one. now it is in Slackware. But when I had issues with the builds I took it to The maintainers git HG SVN etc.
I tried to handle it through SBOPKG but hey. not going to work. So fix it before it gets in the door.
 
Old 09-11-2020, 06:06 PM   #29
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Others don't do that either. For instance the AUR (Arch User Repository) is not managed using git, but users can comment like e.g. here.
 
Old 09-11-2020, 10:39 PM   #30
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I tried to handle it through SBOPKG but hey. not going to work. So fix it before it gets in the door.

it is handled in the development version of sbopkg. It's not going to be backported to the version we have in stable now unfortunately.
 
  


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