[sbopkg-users] Abbreviated READMEs

[Chess Griffin]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:43:12 -0600
sbop.echo.towerboy at xoxy.net wrote:

> 
> I have used sbopkg 0.36 successfully with Slackware 13.37.  However, 
> I've noticed a problem running it with Slackware 14.0.  I looked in
> the latest archives of this mailing list (which end at December) and
> found no mention of what seems to me to be an obvious difference.

Clearly, the mailing list has been quiet because there are ZERO bugs in
sbopkg. ;-)

> 
> Many of the README files for the few packages I've tried to install
> no longer have the dependencies listed in them.  This is true for
> Midori and GnuCash.  The list of dependencies, and the order in which
> to build and install them, is critical for getting GnuCash to work.

Actually, this is a SlackBuilds.org thing, not sbopkg.  Several months
ago, the decision was made by the SBo admins to add a 'REQUIRES=' line
to the *.info file and list the required dependencies there.  Once that
happened, this information was removed from the README in the
SlackBuilds.org repository.  If you go to the SBo website and check
the README's you'll see the dependency information is not there.

A commit was made to the sbopkg subversion repository last October that
restored this functionality to sbopkg -- meaning, it parsed the
REQUIRES= line and listed the dependencies in sbopkg when the user
viewed the README. This may be undergoing some tweaking soon but I
think the essential functionality will remain.  So if you want to pull
from sbopkg's SVN you can have this feature now.

Also, there is a new sbopkg helper script in the works that should be
released soon that will allow a user to create sbopkg queuefiles with
dependencies listed in the right order.  Stay tuned.

HTH.

-- 
Chess Griffin