Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[2.9.2]

Fixed

• Fix all URI escapes in distfile names. Thanks to pghvlaans for relaying the report from fourtysixandtwo and lockywolf!

[2.9.1]

Fixed

• Check existence of slackbuilds for all arguments in sboinstall and sboupgrade. Thanks pghvlaans!
• sbofind: Give helpful error message when the LOCAL_OVERRIDES directory is missing. pghvlaans, thanks again!

[2.9.0]

Added

• Download's are retried from a third party on failure. Allow the user to configure the third party source or disable this feature.

Fixed

• Bail out early when bad command line arguments are given.

Security

• Check SSL certificates when downloading. Oddly, this was previously disabled with '--no-check-certificate'.

[2.8.0] - 2025-01-28

Added

• Automatically add /etc/sbotools/sbotools.conf on installation.
• GPG and checksum verification. Breaking change, disable by configuring 'GPG_KEY=FALSE'.
• Import GPG key with 'sbosnap import-key'.
• Dockerfile for 15.0 testing.
• Allow using without root, where possible, for instance sbofind or sbofind --help.

Fixed

• Expect SBO_HOME to be an absolute path. Thanks pghvlaans!
• Tests under 't/' for 15.0.

[2.7.2] - 2024-12-03

Changed

• Update README and documentation.
• Use the more standard MIT license.

[2.7.1] - 2024-11-24

Changed

• Use separate Change Log file for changes.

Fixed

• Add support for Slackware 15.0.

[2.7] - 2019-04-28

Fixed

• Actually fix the sbofind -e bug #71

[2.6] - 2019-04-27

Added

• Add a --tries 5 option when downloading from sbosrcarch, which is a
• Add limited -current support using ponce's SBo repo for -current #73

Changed

• Compatibility with new perl versions where you need to escape { in regexp #75 #77 #78 saner limit than the default of 20. #79
• Change sboclean options --clean-dist and --clean-work to shorter forms #52

Fixed

• Fix bug with sboinstall --reinstall -r #72
• Fix bug with sbofind -e #71

[2.5] - 2018-02-14

Changed

• 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

Added

• Add --reinstall option to sboinstall #58
• Add version information to sbofind output #60

Changed

• Rewrite sboremove from the ground up so it relies less on global state

Fixed

• Fix for parsing README with useradd/groupadd commands which span lines #57
• Exit with error when sbosnap fails to sync with a repo #61

[2.3] - 2017-01-21

Fixed

• Bugfix for parsing .info files with \ among the separators #55

[2.2] - 2017-01-17

Fixed

• Bugfix for parsing .info files with trailing whitespace after a value #54

[2.1] - 2017-01-14

Added

• Support for templates for installing things with specified options #38
• Display other README files if the slackbuild comes with them #49

Changed

• Adding internal documentation
• Extract code to submodules for easier separation of concerns

Fixed

• 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

Added

• 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

Fixed

• 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

Changed

• Make it compatible with perls newer than 5.18
• Lots of code cleanup
• Rewrite build-queue code. #2
• Change location of website

Fixed

• Fix issue when TMP is set. #4
• Fix various bugs related to cleanup code
• Fix downloading of multiple sources in newer slackbuilds. #5