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sbostuff - Miscellaneous tools for working with SlackBuild.org (SBo)
-build scripts. Included tools:
+build scripts. These are intended more for developers than end-users,
+and for shell users rather than GUI users (sbopkg already has the GUI
+end of things covered).
+
+Included tools:
checkpkg - check that an installed package's files are still present
mkslackdesc - make a valid slack-desc from a README
-mkslackinfo - generate .info and template SlackBuild
+mkslackinfo[*] - generate .info and template SlackBuild
sbodeps - generate a queue file based on .info file contents
sbodl - download the sources (from the .info file)
sbofindsrc - search for missing source files in various archives
sbofixdesc - try to fix malformed slack-desc files
sbofixinfo - try to fix malformed .info files
sbolint - examine a SBo tarball or dir, look for common errors
-sbonewmaint - change MAINTAINER and EMAIL in .info file
+sbonewmaint[*] - change MAINTAINER and EMAIL in .info file
sbosearch - search local SBo repo
-sboul - submit slackbuild tarballs to SBo, from command line
+sboul[*] - submit slackbuild tarballs to SBo, from command line
sbrename - rename a build
sbrun - run a build, with filesystem tracking and without network
sbosrc - simple client script for sbosrcarch archives
@@ -26,3 +30,17 @@ the form of comments in the scripts.
Some of these are shell scripts, some are perl. Comments are hopefully
in English :)
+
+There's also modified git hook (see the git/ dir) and an 'elvi' for
+surfraw, to search for SBo packages from the command line.
+
+Before using this stuff, you'll want to add a line to your ~/.bashrc or
+~/.bash_profile, to source the sbostuff function library. Example:
+
+source ~/sbostuff/sbostuff.sh
+
+Also, there's a config file sbostuff.cfg that you should copy to
+~/.sbostuff.cfg and edit.
+
+Scripts marked with an [*] won't work until you've done this.
+