Hi there all you fine people,

Being annoyed by sbopkg and too lazy to do all slackbuilds by hand I decided to learn bash and in the process write my own "packager" and so I did. This is my first BASH project and so far I found it to be very nifty (I tend to use this thing almost daily) so I'm throwing it out into the wild, maybe somebody will find it useful.

Calvin can automate slackbuild installation and can process these nice text files for the lazy bunch, the ones I call slackbundles. Basically, a bundle is just a text file with a list of slackbuilds which will be built in that order. I found out that a bundle for mysql-workbench (and stuff alike) might save a couple of those dying nerves.

I've made a nice page for calvin here: http://www.cprog.de/calvin/

So check it out. Any input is extremely welcome.

Cheers,
Armin.

Your slackbundles sound like the sbo queue files.

Even if you managed to reimplement the SBO queue files, the main point is, you learned to program BASH and thats a big accomplishment. Congratulations!

<---- Does this make sense? Registered 2004, 16 posts, LQ Newbie

Not bad!
Couple of things I would change the bash-centric way is to use $(COMMAND) instead of back ticks ( yes I know it's not posix but this IS a bash script! please don't flame me! ), I would also check for uid 0 rather than the name root ( echo $UID ).
You might want to check out the advanced bash scripting guide if you haven' already got a copy and also this is a good site for bash scripts http://bashscripts.org/forum/index.php
Good work!

Any plans to support the Sbo queue (.sqf) file format? There's already a large collection of those and the differences between your format and theirs are small. It might get people using your script that way...

Hi guys, thanks for all the input.

@bosth: Yes, another friend recommended this and I'm working on it. If it works I'll give it a go with some of those and if it works that'll be great.

Your title depends on number of posts, not how long you've been a member, or level of knowledge. If it depended on level of knowledge, I wouldn't even qualify as a newbie.

Speaking of which... You're only 15 away from "Guru".

Yeah, I'd be too embarrassed to choose that title. Probably go for "LQ 5k Club".

From the LQ FAQ:

Excellent advice, and it *IS* Posix. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs...l#tag_02_06_03

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@brianL- Haha - LQ Addict sounds very suspect to me and "LQ 5k Club" not much better. Go for Guru - from Wikipedia
Suits you sir - guru brianL - gotta ring to it.

Thanks for that, I've never checked but I have had some complaints when posting ( not just on this board ) that the $() form is bash only and not posix , now I know better!Grrr