sbotools.hints(5)

NAME

sbotools.hints - script-specific hints for sbotools

DESCRIPTION

The /etc/sbotools/sbotools.hints file is used to give sbotools hints about individual scripts. Four kinds of hints are recognized:
    • blacklist • optional reverse dependencies • automatic reverse dependency rebuilds • test failures are ignored by sboupgrade
Please note that all requests apply equally to the compat32 versions of the scripts; specific requests for compat32 scripts are unsupported.

If a script is blacklisted, it can neither be included in build queues nor removed by sboremove(1). To blacklist a script, place it on its own line with no whitespace, prepending an exclamation mark:
    !javacc
Blacklist entries supersede optional dependency requests.

To ask sboupgrade(1) to rebuild a script's reverse dependencies upon upgrade or reinstall, place the name of the script on its own line with no whitespace, prepending a tilde:
    ~libmodplug

Many scripts on SlackBuilds.org have optional dependencies. To make sbotools recognize one or more optional dependencies for a script, make a space-delineated list of optional dependencies and place the name of the script at the end:
    libcacard spice libiscsi qemu
Commented lines are ignored. There should not be whitespace to the left of any entry.

sbohints(1) can also be used to interface with this file. To use a configuration directory other than /etc/sbotools, export an environment variable SBOTOOLS_CONF_DIR with an absolute path.

To ask sboupgrade(1) to ignore test failures for a script when called with --all-plus-failures, place the name of the script on its own line with no whitespace, prepending a percent sign:
    %zoom-linux

SEE ALSO

sbocheck(1), sboclean(1), sboconfig(1), sbocutleaves(1), sbofind(1), sbohints(1), sboinstall(1), sboremove(1), sbotool(1), sboupgrade(1), sbotools.colors(5), sbotools.conf(5)

AUTHORS

Jacob Pipkin <jacob.pipkin@icloud.com>

Luke Williams <xocel@iquidus.org>

Andreas Guldstrand <andreas.guldstrand@gmail.com>

MAINTAINER

K. Eugene Carlson <kvngncrlsn@gmail.com>