[sbopkg-users] How to set up and use a local repository?

[Charles]

Hello :-)

What is the best way to set up a local repository (as opposed to a local
copy of the slackbuild.org repository)?

I followed the sbopkg.conf man page, section REPO_NAME, where it says
"The local' choice corresponds to a user-maintained repository whose
structure must be the same as the one used by SBo, in the sense of a
category/package/files hierarchy".

I set up a directory structure for the local repository and unpacked
three non-standard SlackBuilds into it:

/var/lib/sbopkg/local/
`-- 14.0
    |-- academic
    |-- accessibility
    |-- audio
    |-- business
    |-- desktop
    |-- development
    |-- games
    |-- graphics
    |-- ham
    |-- haskell
    |-- libraries
    |   |-- tbb
    |   `-- xapian-core
    |-- misc
    |-- multimedia
    |-- network
    |   `-- spideroak
    |-- office
    |-- perl
    |-- python
    |-- ruby
    `-- system

I tried to build and install the three SlackBuilds from the command line:

root at CW8:~# sbopkg -V local/14.0 -i 'spideroak tbb xapian-core'
Unknown repository name -- "local/14.0"
root at CW8:~# sbopkg -V local -i 'spideroak tbb xapian-core'
Queuefile or package spideroak not found - skipping.
Queuefile or package tbb not found - skipping.
Queuefile or package xapian-core not found - skipping.

Got the same error messages after replacing the -V option with both
-D /var/lib/sbopkg/local
and
-D /var/lib/sbopkg/local/14.0

I added a line to /etc/sbopkg/repos.d/50-local.repo:

local 14.0 "Local repository for Slackware 14.0" _SBo  "" "" ""

and ran the first command again:

root at CW8:~# sbopkg -V local/14.0 -i 'spideroak tbb xapian-core'
Queuefile or package spideroak not found - skipping.
Queuefile or package tbb not found - skipping.
Queuefile or package xapian-core not found - skipping

What to do?

Best

Charles