From slakmagik at gmail.com Fri Nov 12 04:45:06 2010 From: slakmagik at gmail.com (slakmagik) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:45:06 -0500 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg 0.34.0 Released Message-ID: <20101112044506.GA18611@devbox> sbopkg 0.34.0 is released. This release has been awhile in coming and includes some revisions in the directory initialization and in the command line interface, including the ability to pass app-specific options on the command line and to specify the -b, -g, -i, and -s flags multiple times. It also fixes the -s option, which had been broken for awhile. It also includes a revised configuration file, new man pages, and has various other enhancements and bugfixes. Thanks to all sbopkg users who help out with bug reports, suggestions, and whose appreciation of sbopkg is appreciated. :) This release can be downloaded from http://www.sbopkg.org or http://code.google.com/p/sbopkg/ Here are the specific changes since the last release: * Revised man pages - these are very different and now document a couple of previously undocumented things and are worth a (re-)read. Thanks to Marie-Claude Collilieux for the French translations of these. * The HACKING file now includes a man page style guide in addition to the coding style guide. * The LOGDIR variable has been removed from sbopkg.conf - DIR can be specified in LOGFILE. * The DEBUG variable has been renamed to DEBUG_UPDATES in sbopkg.conf. * The default timeout values in {WGET,RSYNC}FLAGS have been raised from 10/15 to 30 in sbopkg.conf. * All parameters in sbopkg.conf now use default values only if the variable hasn't been previously set (meaning they can all be overridden by passing variables on the command line). * sbopkg.conf has been reordered - this may make any merging that may be needed more interesting this time but hopefully it's worth it. * The directory initialization process has been changed - at first run or otherwise when encountering missing directories, the user will now be presented with a single list of them and a (C)reate/(A)bort prompt. * The command line user interface has been overhauled in terms of more consistent validated command line messages and prompts. * Fix an ARCH display issue in the updates screen; thanks to alkos333, Marc Payne, and David Spencer for confirming the issue and thanks to David Spencer for testing the fix. * Fixed bugs with dzen2 and *zarafa* not downloading/building properly. Note that, while the changes fix these issues and should make it easier to handle similar problems in the future, this change may introduce regressions. If a download or build fails due to a downloaded tarball looking something like 'blah?actual_tarball.tar.gz' or the like, please report it to us. * Fixed bugs with the '-s' option where only the first of multiple arguments would be returned and where the command line select menu was broken. Also where it and the -g flag might inadvertently expand globs wrongly. * It's now possible to specify the b,g,i,s flags multiple times. Previously multiple arguments to these flags had to be quoted (-b "foo bar") but now they can be given as '-b foo -b bar'. The original style is still supported. * With the new style of passing multiple arguments, it is now possible to specify app-specific options on the command line. These take the form of, e.g., '-i app1:opt1="foo bar":opt2=baz app2:opt=mu'. If that's cryptic, see the manual for details. * Users now have the option of interactively retrying a failed https download, invoking wget with '--no-check-certificate', as this can be caused by 'self-signed certificates' and the like. From chess at chessgriffin.com Fri Nov 19 14:30:21 2010 From: chess at chessgriffin.com (Chess Griffin) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:30:21 -0500 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement Message-ID: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hello everybody! I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know that I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik and Mauro Giachero. As you probably know, both of them have been actively involved in sbopkg development for a long, long time and ever since coming on board, they have driven most of the important improvements. The reasons for my stepping down are fairly common, I guess: work and family life. It's all good stuff, so no worries there, but the fact of the matter is that in the past 6-9 months I have found myself with little time for sbopkg development or other Linux-y general hacking. Sbopkg needs people with the time and ability to improve and maintain it. I am very proud of sbopkg and am pleased with what it has become. I have full confidence in the ability of slakmagik and Mauro to continue maintaining it. These guys have taught me a lot and they have improved sbopkg far beyond what I could have done alone. Thanks to both of them for helping out and for agreeing to carry the torch. They are actively working on sbopkg development right now, so there will continue to be regular and steady releases. I'd also like to thank all of the sbopkg users for the bug reports, suggestions, and general support. I am really glad that so many folks find this utility helpful. Please continue to send your bug reports to the Google Code Issue Tracker, or post to the sbopkg mailing list, or drop slakmagik or Mauro an email (please don't send them to me). Keep on Slackin'! -- Chess Griffin From didier.spaier at epsm.fr Fri Nov 19 14:55:03 2010 From: didier.spaier at epsm.fr (Didier Spaier) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:55:03 +0100 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement In-Reply-To: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <4CE68FC7.9030404@epsm.fr> Salut Chess, Le 19/11/2010 15:30, Chess Griffin a ?crit : > Hello everybody! > > I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know that > I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik and Mauro > Giachero. Thanks for the time, efforts and intelligence you dedicated to this wonderful system. I hope you the best in your next endeavours. Merci pour tout, et bon vent pour tes nouvelles aventures. Didier From pwcazenave at gmail.com Fri Nov 19 14:56:29 2010 From: pwcazenave at gmail.com (Pierre Cazenave) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:56:29 +0000 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement In-Reply-To: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <4CE6901D.6010203@gmail.com> On 19/11/2010 14:30, Chess Griffin wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know > that I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik > and Mauro Giachero. As you probably know, both of them have been > actively involved in sbopkg development for a long, long time and > ever since coming on board, they have driven most of the important > improvements. The reasons for my stepping down are fairly common, I > guess: work and family life. It's all good stuff, so no worries > there, but the fact of the matter is that in the past 6-9 months I > have found myself with little time for sbopkg development or other > Linux-y general hacking. Sbopkg needs people with the time and > ability to improve and maintain it. > > I am very proud of sbopkg and am pleased with what it has become. I > have full confidence in the ability of slakmagik and Mauro to > continue maintaining it. These guys have taught me a lot and they > have improved sbopkg far beyond what I could have done alone. Thanks > to both of them for helping out and for agreeing to carry the torch. > They are actively working on sbopkg development right now, so there > will continue to be regular and steady releases. > > I'd also like to thank all of the sbopkg users for the bug reports, > suggestions, and general support. I am really glad that so many > folks find this utility helpful. > > Please continue to send your bug reports to the Google Code Issue > Tracker, or post to the sbopkg mailing list, or drop slakmagik or > Mauro an email (please don't send them to me). > > Keep on Slackin'! > Thanks for creating sbopkg. I can confidently say it's significantly improved my Slackware experience. Best of luck with your future projects, Pierre From slava18 at gmail.com Fri Nov 19 15:47:04 2010 From: slava18 at gmail.com (V'yacheslav Stetskevych) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:47:04 +0200 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement In-Reply-To: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Chess Griffin wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know that > I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik and Mauro > Giachero. ?As you probably know, both of them have been actively > involved in sbopkg development for a long, long time and ever since > coming on board, they have driven most of the important improvements. > The reasons for my stepping down are fairly common, I guess: ?work and > family life. ?It's all good stuff, so no worries there, but the fact of > the matter is that in the past 6-9 months I have found myself with > little time for sbopkg development or other Linux-y general hacking. > Sbopkg needs people with the time and ability to improve and maintain > it. > > I am very proud of sbopkg and am pleased with what it has become. ?I > have full confidence in the ability of slakmagik and Mauro to continue > maintaining it. ?These guys have taught me a lot and they have improved > sbopkg far beyond what I could have done alone. ?Thanks to both of them > for helping out and for agreeing to carry the torch. ?They are actively > working on sbopkg development right now, so there will continue to be > regular and steady releases. > > I'd also like to thank all of the sbopkg users for the bug reports, > suggestions, and general support. ?I am really glad that so many folks > find this utility helpful. > > Please continue to send your bug reports to the Google Code Issue > Tracker, or post to the sbopkg mailing list, or drop slakmagik or Mauro > an email (please don't send them to me). > > Keep on Slackin'! > > -- > Chess Griffin Thank you, Chess, for all the effort that went into sbopkg! It's the tool that makes SBo useful for a lot of people. Good luck with life and whatever else you are doing! :-) All the best, V'yacheslav. -- If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Digital and all the music is free... ? ? ? ?http://www.linux.com From mjjzf at syntaktisk.dk Fri Nov 19 20:59:44 2010 From: mjjzf at syntaktisk.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Morten_Juhl-Johansen_Z=F6lde-Fej=E9r=22?=) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:59:44 +0100 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement In-Reply-To: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <893b4003ac665e56731a20b679655971.squirrel@squirrelmail.gigahost.dk> ---- 8< ---- Chess Griffin ---- 8< ---- > Hello everybody! > I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know that > I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik and Mauro > Giachero. As you probably know, both of them have been actively > involved in sbopkg development for a long, long time and ever since > coming on board, they have driven most of the important improvements. > Keep on Slackin'! > -- > Chess Griffin I trust you will still be around! If you get some extra time on your hands, you could always do a podcast or something... All the best - and once again, my respect to those who know when to step down when they do not have the resources. Yours, Morten __ Morten Juhl-Johansen Z?lde-Fej?r http://syntaktisk.dk * mjjzf at syntaktisk.dk From gmartin at gmartin.org Sat Nov 20 20:40:03 2010 From: gmartin at gmartin.org (gmartin) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:40:03 -0500 Subject: [sbopkg-users] Sbopkg Development Announcement In-Reply-To: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1290177021.31319.1406151819@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: Chess, sbopkg. like Slackbuilds.org, is an important part of the Slackware community. The two combined have allowed Slackware to move outside the realm of geekdom into the hands of hobbiests and IT pros. I appreciate the time you invested into sbopkg and your willingness to let it go free once your time dried up. I also look forward to the future development that slakmagik and Mauro may bring \\Greg On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Chess Griffin wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I wanted to send a short announcement to the list to let folks know that > I have officially handed over sbopkg maintenance to slakmagik and Mauro > Giachero. As you probably know, both of them have been actively > involved in sbopkg development for a long, long time and ever since > coming on board, they have driven most of the important improvements. > The reasons for my stepping down are fairly common, I guess: work and > family life. It's all good stuff, so no worries there, but the fact of > the matter is that in the past 6-9 months I have found myself with > little time for sbopkg development or other Linux-y general hacking. > Sbopkg needs people with the time and ability to improve and maintain > it. > > I am very proud of sbopkg and am pleased with what it has become. I > have full confidence in the ability of slakmagik and Mauro to continue > maintaining it. These guys have taught me a lot and they have improved > sbopkg far beyond what I could have done alone. Thanks to both of them > for helping out and for agreeing to carry the torch. They are actively > working on sbopkg development right now, so there will continue to be > regular and steady releases. > > I'd also like to thank all of the sbopkg users for the bug reports, > suggestions, and general support. I am really glad that so many folks > find this utility helpful. > > Please continue to send your bug reports to the Google Code Issue > Tracker, or post to the sbopkg mailing list, or drop slakmagik or Mauro > an email (please don't send them to me). > > Keep on Slackin'! > > -- > Chess Griffin > > _______________________________________________ > sbopkg-users mailing list > sbopkg-users at sbopkg.org > http://sbopkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sbopkg-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: