Package dependency graphs from SBo

There was a very interesting announcement at the LQ forum of Slackware by Gabriel Magno. In his project SlackBuildsViz, he provides scripts to collect and visualize dependency graphs from SlackBuilds.org. He also provided the generated graphs (*.png) and build queue files (*.sqf). Read the rest of this entry »


queues

I have been using the great and handy sbopkg tool for quite some time and it works very well. Normally, I would just download the queue files collection and place it in /var/lib/sbopkg/queues. Recently, I heard about a nice little script called sqg that can generate queues files. Read the rest of this entry »


Making sbopkg and sbotools coexist

I have been using that great tool sbopkg for several years and it has always worked perfectly. Combined with the collection of queue files, the dependency resolution becomes semi-automatic.

A new project, called sbotools, emerged recently which seems fairly interesting. Read the rest of this entry »


sbopkg and the most recent git

Slackware 14.0 is released!

However, sbopkg is still not ready for the 14.0 repo and in fact the 14.0 repo is not even available yet. So, I just cloned the git repo with: Read the rest of this entry »


EMBOSS and primer3

I finally figured it out. Since primer3 version 2.2.3, its EMBOSS wrapper eprimer32 somehow did not work. I was wondering what the problem was and did not submit any updates of my primer3.SlackBuild for the sake of compatibility with EMBOSS. Read the rest of this entry »