[sbopkg-users] Specify version from command line and and read source from current dir?

[William Oquendo]

Hi, understood. Thanks.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 8:54 AM Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <
willysr at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> >Hi,
> >First thanks for sbopkg.
> >Sometimes, I want to use/test the current slackbuild but with a newer
> >package version. For instance, for apptainer, and the current sbopkg
> >configuration (I am using /var/lib/sbopkg/SBo-git/), the apptainer version
> >is too old, it is 1.1.6. I want to test with the current one, 1.5.2.
> >
> >The ideal use would be to download the current source at my current
> >directory,
> >wget -c
> >
> https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer/releases/download/v1.5.2/apptainer-1.5.2.tar.gz
> >and specify the version as a flag
> >VERSION=1.5.2 sbopkg -i apptainer
> >But of course that does not work, even the version flag is kept on the old
> >value 1.1.6. Actually, the slackbuild has something like
> >VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6.1}
> >and the .info also has the version written and maybe it is overwriting
> >everything.
> >
> >I currently do something which is an ugly workaround: enter the dir
> >/var/lib/sbopkg/SBo-git/system/apptainer, put there the soruce and run
> >there the slackbuild script directly with the VERSION env flag.
> >
> >Reading the slackbuild it seems that it uses CWD=$pwd for the source, so
> it
> >wont work either to find the source in another directory. But that can be
> >mitigated by putting the source in the cache. The problem is with the env
> >var.
> >
> >Of course apptainer is just an example, I know that is a big version jump
> >and so on, and the general goal of this post is to know if there is a way
> >to easy the handling of different versions and sources besides modifying
> >the repo.
>
>
> Hi
>
> sbopkg is designed to run originally to run the script from the repo, so
> local
> edit is not possible, but later on, we have added a local edit features,
> which
> is not available in CLI mode. You need to run it on TUI mode by running
> sbopkg
> as root without any option.
>
> Select Search > Custom. You can edit .info or .SlackBuild locally there
>
>
>
> --
> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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Best regards / Cordialmente,

William-Fernando Oquendo
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