sbotest is a reverse dependency build tester based on the sbotools library.
This sbotools extension was written with script maintainers in mind: Easily build and test scripts with their reverse dependencies in a single command. Copy built packages into an archive to be used again, and keep it up-to-date with sbotest --archive-rebuild.
See the man page for more information about options and settings!
sbotest is not quite ready for a version release, which needs to wait for sbotools-3.7. In the meantime, please follow these steps if you would like to try sbotest:
- Use sbotools-git-slackbuild to upgrade sbotools to version
20250601-1735124at the oldest. - Clone the sbotest repository.
- From the root directory, run
./tools/source_to_slackbuild.sh. - Run the SlackBuild in
slackbuild/sbotest.
Issues and requests are welcome; please indicate the most recent commit with the output of:
git log | head -n 1
Jacob Pipkin, Luke Williams and Andreas Guldstrand are the original authors of sbotools.
B. Watson is the author and maintainer of sbo-maintainer-tools.
sbotest was designed and intended to be run in a build-testing environment, such as a virtual machine or a Docker image. Using sbotest on a general-purpose Slackware installation is unsupported and unadvisable.