SBo new additions
 

Hi,

AFAIK we don't know when there are new additions on slackbuild.org
With the exception of Willy's commit every Saturday, where it's hard to find them.

I think a dedicated thread can be useful

So, I begin. My 2 new additions (hopefully on SBo tomorrow):

bzip3:
A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2

unrar-free:
free version of the non-free unrar utility

Other additions from this week approved list:

I agree I think this will be most helpful.

A week ago, I added spellcheck dictionaries for WPS office:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...-office-dicts/

the script processes the dictionaries from the LibreOffice project. Then I though that others (not only Slackware users) may find these useful, so I put them on my GitHub:
https://github.com/slackalaxy/wps-office-dicts

maybe I'll make the SlackBuild just repackage this, since it's much easier...

PS: excellent idea for a thread

I'd just like to mention there is an rss feed for SlackBuild.org

http://slackbuilds.org/rss/ChangeLog.rss

I quite like these threads even if rss feeds exist. Here comments are available and in this particular one, useful parsing is done (only additions).

And I believe that, for an official forum, it shows Slackware activity. Maybe it would avoid us those threads asking if the distro is alive...

I am at a loss trying to understand the logic of how a thread based on a repackaged feed from an officially endorsed but unofficial third party repository appearing in the official support forum is going to further the demonstration of the distro being alive.

I have the habit of reading LQ. I do not read RSS feeds. Also, here we can discuss the additions. It's as simple as that why I like the thread.

We also have website that contains the changelog on every update

I sometimes do some little tricky stuff but wouldn't it be nice if there was like a « new xxx-tar.gz version » to make ? Like some watching, staying up-to date with some stuff (I think about python modules that get often updated). If there's a thread for it I'd like to know. As I said, I only take the previous SlackBuilds files and change them a little but I'm not so experienced to submit them and moreover to put my name on it. And instead of boring the mainteners with emails... well my two cents.

Sat Jun 10 2023

15 packages added

This public update brings a lot of python2 removals since they have been ported to python3
or no longer used in any other scripts (willysr)

29 packages removed

Aye!

system/pbzx is useful if you need to unpack a *.pkg, by Apple. It is used in tandem with xar, available at SBo.

This is a false positive, asymptote is there since 2016.

Indeed
The change is in fact an update with "Added missing files"

Thought I'd add a little more context about this one. python3-docker-compose is the last python version and last update for version 1.x.

Anyone familiar with Go want to add a new docker-compose slackbuild for version 2.x? It's a bit of a pain as it wants to download about 500mb during the build.

Otherwise the alienbob pkg for v2 is an option for those that want it.

also, you can subscribe to the mailing list and see the public update notification sent every week :)

Some of my packages
 

Thanks for the thread marav,this would really focus only on what is added in SBo.I have added some new packages this week and is in the ready commit.


I have also updated some packages that I Maintain this week and is in the ready commit.

Sat Jun 17 2023

47 packages added

2 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Fri Jun 23 2023

7 packages added

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

is actually

yeah, my bad

Sun Jul 02 2023

2 packages added
1 packages removed
https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Jul 08 2023

40 packages added

32 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Jul 15 2023

34 packages added

9 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

This should be a sticky!

Agreed!

Sat Jul 22 2023

15 packages added

1 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Agreed!

Sat Jul 29 2023

21 packages added

3 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Is it just me or when you get emails about additions then update in sbopkg and/or sbotools, they're not actually there yet? They're listing the additions before they're adding them?

Just you or you're not waiting until about an hour afterwards for all the new tarballs and asc files to be generated.

Usually i sent the email when the last 2 steps were executed, which is generating slackbuilds.txt and tags. Those two are not essential for most users and tools like sbopkg but if you run sbopkg -r, you will definitely get the update because i also run sbopkg on my own machine to check

Sat Aug 05 2023

14 packages added

1 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Aug 12 2023

5 packages added

1 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Aug 19 2023

8 packages added

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Aug 26 2023

5 packages added

Sat Aug 26 2023

1 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

@willy & @urchlay

is in fact:

development/tinyscheme

somehow tinyscheme tarball was found during public update, but i couldn't find any email or information in the DB or GIT about this, so i removed the tarball for this week's public update.

it should be fixed now

Sat Sep 02 2023

14 packages added

1 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sun Sep 03 2023

2 packages added

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

Sat Sep 09 2023

7 packages added

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

My most favorite way. Kicks me to update my SlackBuild:study:

RSS @home
Forum post on the phone

These are my favorites.

Sat Sep 16 2023

26 packages added

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt

hello, hello...

since I maintain these, here's some info:
academic/FastTree: a program to infer maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees. Ugene can drive this
academic/FigTree: I don't see it in the list by marav, but was sure added. This is a nice tool to visualize phylogeny
academic/kalign: a multiple sequence alignment program; Ugene can drive it
academic/ncbi-edirect: this makes communication with the NCBI database easy, via bash scripts
academic/sim: this works in tandem with lalnview (long time on SBo) when you want to compare two protein sequences
academic/wise: this can map protein sequence to DNA, very useful if modelling for genes
libraries/tslib: this is a touchscreen lib, Viber looks for it, though it works fine without on a keyboard and mouse PC. Seems i will be maintaining Viber now, so doh...

yep
but I think it's important (at least for my script) that commit messages respect a specific pattern for additions & deletions (as Pat does for the Slackware changelog)

cut willy some slack... :)

my bad ...

Sat Sep 23 2023

44 packages added

2 packages removed

https://slackbuilds.org/ChangeLog.txt