/etc/sbotools/sbotools.conf

[dcjud]

Just installed sbotools 2.7 by hand via the Slackbuild. Everything went well but I noticed it didn't create an /etc/sbotools directory. No problem, sbosnap and sboinstall seemed to work as advertised.

Subsequently had some difficulty with packages not found on the slackbuilds tree ("Unable to locate..."). This was resolved by making an /etc/sbotools and an sbotools.conf with one line:

REPO=rsync://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/15.0/

... and then sbosnap update downloaded the missing pieces. There were a lot! (The REPO= line was copied from my other Slackware box; don't remember where I had that from.)

So a few questions:

• was the install process supposed to create an /etc/sbotools directory, perhaps with a sample sbotools.conf?
• with no sbotools.conf, what default repo was it sync'ing with?
• could sync'ing against the manually entered URL (rsync://slackbuilds.org/slackbuils/15.0) really produce such different results from syncing with git?

I looked in the docs for this ... honest :)

thx!