# sbotools [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pink-mist/sbotools.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/pink-mist/sbotools) **[sbotools](https://pink-mist.github.io/sbotools/)** provides a ports-like interface to [slackbuilds.org](http://www.slackbuilds.org/). ## Changes * 2.7 - 2019-04-28 * Actually fix the sbofind -e bug #71 * 2.6 - 2019-04-27 * Compatibility with new perl versions where you need to escape { in regexp #75 #77 #78 * Add a --tries 5 option when downloading from sbosrcarch, which is a saner limit than the default of 20. #79 * Change sboclean options --clean-dist and --clean-work to shorter forms #52 * Add limited -current support using ponce's SBo repo for -current #73 * Fix bug with sboinstall --reinstall -r #72 * Fix bug with sbofind -e #71 * 2.5 - 2018-02-14 * Document download behaviour #66 * Remake sbosnap and sboremove to have OO semantics * Strip -compat32 from slackbuild names when looking them up #65 * Optimise searching in sbofind * 2.4 - 2017-05-18 * Rewrite sboremove from the ground up so it relies less on global state * Fix for parsing README with useradd/groupadd commands which span lines #57 * Add --reinstall option to sboinstall #58 * Exit with error when sbosnap fails to sync with a repo #61 * Add version information to sbofind output #60 * 2.3 - 2017-01-21 * Bugfix for parsing .info files with \ among the separators #55 * 2.2 - 2017-01-17 * Bugfix for parsing .info files with trailing whitespace after a value #54 * 2.1 - 2017-01-14 * Internals: - Adding internal documentation - Extract code to submodules for easier separation of concerns * New features: - Support for templates for installing things with specified options #38 - Display other README files if the slackbuild comes with them #49 * Bugfixes - sboinstall/sboremove disagreeing about a package being installed #44 - sbocheck and sboupgrade misinterpreting version strings #45 - parsing .info files without leading space on second line #46 - local git repo gets partially chowned to root #47 - stop excluding .tar.gz files when rsyncing #53 * 2.0 - 2016-07-02 * Major new features * LOCAL_OVERRIDES setting Allows to keep a directory with local slackbuild dirs that will override whatever is found in the regular repository. #8 #13 #14 #15 #19 #20 * SLACKWARE_VERSION setting Allows to specify the slackware version to sync from SBo. Previously only the version in your /etc/slackware-version was used for this, and if that had gotten updated in -current, you'd have needed to wait both for a new version of sbotools, as well as SBo to get the new repository online before sbotools would work for you again. #19 * REPO setting This will override the SLACKWARE_VERSION setting. It's used to specify an absolute URL for the SBo repository you want to sync with. #6 #19 #27 * Use sbosrcarch source archive if download fails #7 #19 #24 * sboupgrade --all option to upgrade everything listed by sbocheck. #9 #19 * Travis CI integration Every push will now cause the test-suite to be run. #18 * Hundreds of new unit-tests. #18 #19 #23 #24 #25 #27 #28 #31 #32 #33 #35 #41 #43 * sbofind will now also use tags if they're available #37 * Minor/bugfixes/documentation fixes * Use system perl when running and installing sbotools. * sbocheck output changed. #10 #13 #20 * Better debug messages on errors. #16 * manpage fixes. #17 * sboupgrade handles dependencies better. #12 #28 * Update bundled Sort::Versions to 1.62. * sboinstall/upgrade/sbocheck: small bugfixes. #21 #35 #41 #43 * sbosnap: display download progress, update git trees better. #26 #27 * 1.9 - 2015-11-27 * Make it compatible with perls newer than 5.18 * Lots of code cleanup * Rewrite build-queue code. #2 * Fix issue when TMP is set. #4 * Fix various bugs related to cleanup code * Change location of website * Fix downloading of multiple sources in newer slackbuilds. #5