[sbopkg-users] sbopkg.conf

[B Kirkpatrick]

On 03/01/2011 10:33 PM, slakmagik wrote:
> On 2011-03-01 (Tue) 21:52:54 [-0600], Bill Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> Folks,
>> I just got around to updating my laptop to sbopkg-0.34.1&  realized that
>> every time I upgrade, I have to edit my sbopkg.conf file because I don't
>> keep my sources in the suggested location. I made the following change to
>> sbopkg.conf, so as not to have to worry about that in future, I hope.
>>
>> # $Id: sbopkg.conf.new 857 2011-02-05 03:19:19Z slakmagik $
>> #
>> # Please read the sbopkg.conf(5) man page for information about this
>> # configuration file, including an explanation of how to set these
>> # variables.
>>
>> *# Read personallized configuration file if it exists;
>> #  - usually called 'sbo.conf'.
>> # Changes may be made in the personalized file, not this one.
>> CONFFILE=${CONFFILE:-"/etc/sbopkg/sbo.conf"}
>> [ -f ${CONFFILE} ]&&  . ${CONFFILE}
>> *
>> # The following variables are used by sbopkg and by the SlackBuild
>> # scripts themselves.  They must be exported for this reason.
>> export TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
>> export OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
>>
>> My sbo.conf is:
>>
>> SRCDIR=/mnt/spock/sbopkg/src
>> QUEUEDIR=/mnt/spock/sbopkg/sbopkg-slackware-queues
>>
>> Any actual changes to sbopkg.conf would have to be dealt with on upgrade,
>> but then one hsould read that file thoroughly after an upgrade anyway.
>> Is this worth adding to the conf file?
> You've discovered a major documentation bug. We've actually already had
> an implementation of a solution to this problem since 0.25.0 but, to my
> astonishment, this isn't documented anywhere but the NEWS file.
>
> If you create a ~/.sbopkg.conf file, sbopkg will automatically source it
> after the system file, allowing you to override it.
>
> Also, there's an -f flag (that *is* documented) as another way to
> specify it if you wanted to use an entirely different configuration.
>
> If we didn't already have the mechanism in place, it would definitely be
> worth doing something about. :) Thanks for making me realize the
> documentation omission. I'll correct that soon.
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This actually points at a major brain fade of my own. I use the 
SBo-git/current repository & when I set it in sbopkg, it creates 
~/.sbopkg.conf with REPO_NAME & REPO_BRANCH in it. I just never thought 
to put anything else in there! Thanks a lot for a very good piece of 
software.
Bill