Most packages that you can find in the www (slackbuilds.org, http://packages.slackware.it, ...) are outdated. You know that: Looking at slackbuilds.org for a tool, then looking at the version number and see that there's a source on the builders homepage that's x major and y minor releases further.
I, personally, hate to install 'old' software. I want the newest. So I have to built from source - make, ./configure --flags, make install to a DESTDIR, cp docs, change rights and makepkg at the end.
This sucks. To learn a bit about writing shellscripts I started to write a shellscript that does the job (yes, I know about pkgbuild). Currently it's able to:
- remove old sources
- remove old package
- extract the source package (tar.gz / tar.bz2)
- copy a given layout file (supported by apache httpd for instance)
- make install to DESTDIR
- create documentation directory
- copy documentation files (like README, INSTALL, AUTHORS...)
- chown root.root DESTDIR
- build package with makepkg
- echo build time
- remove sources after successful build
- remove installation from DESTDIR after successful build
- automatically search SRCDIR for documentation and copy it
- really important: create slack_desc for created package
- really important: output last 5 rows if build fails
- really important: check for $DESTDIR support
- make it much cleaner
- less params
NOTE: I don't make any warranties that my script will work for you or won't fuck up your machine.
NOTE: I don't make any warranties that my script will work for you or won't fuck up your machine.
