sbotest

sbotest is a reverse dependency build tester based on the sbotools library.

This sbotools companion script is written with script maintainers in mind: Easily build and test scripts with their reverse dependencies in a single command. Maintain an archive for built dependencies and keep it up-to-date with sbotest --archive-rebuild.

sbotest is configured separately from sbotools. See the contents of /etc/sbotest, or run sbotest config and sbotest hints to set options from the command line.

See the man page for more information about options and settings!

Most Recent Changes

Post-Release

• tools: Add a script to make a submission-ready archive.

1.3.1 - 2026-08-13

• Compatibility bump
• Account for the new IDLE_BUILD setting; add --idle-build
  • Thanks to shamefulCake1 for the sbotools request
• bin/test: Correct the valid package types

1.3 - 2026-08-07

• Compatibility bump
• Account for the new NICENESS setting; add --niceness
  • Thanks to shamefulCake1 for the sbotools request
• Show version and build number in the results summary where appropriate
• bin/test: Add a --force option to rebuild up-to-date packages with full repo and archive rebuilds
• bin/test: Add a --series option to test everything in a series
• bin/test: More efficient queue score calculation
• bin/test: Faster reusable package detection for dry runs

1.2.3 - 2026-07-31

• Compatibility bump
• Document the manual download directory and symlink
• Document the new SBO_HOME default of /var/lib/sbotest, etc.
• Account for the NO_SOCHECK setting; replace --so-check with --no-socheck

1.2.2 - 2026-05-06

• Account for the new NONET setting
• Compatibility bump

Getting sbotest

A SlackBuild is available at SlackBuilds.org.

To use a development version:

• Use sbotools-git-slackbuild to upgrade sbotools to version 20260809_92a0b0e at the oldest.
• Clone the sbotest repository.
• Run ./tools/source_to_slackbuild.sh from the root of the local repository.
• Run the SlackBuild in slackbuild/sbotest.

Issues and requests are welcome; if running post-release sbotest, please indicate the most recent commit with the output of:

git log | head -n 1

Acknowledgments

Jacob Pipkin, Luke Williams and Andreas Guldstrand are the original authors of sbotools.

B. Watson is the author and maintainer of sbo-maintainer-tools.

Disclaimer

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.