# SlackBuilder

SlackBuilder is a tool which aims to help to update Slackware packages.
It checks for the latest version of an upstream package and can modify
SlackBuild meta information accordingly.

## Build instructions

SlackBuilder is a Haskell program and can be built and run using the
Cabal build tool and package manager:

```sh
cabal build
```

After that you can run slackbuilder using Cabal and `cabal run slackbuilder`.
Or you can install the program locally with `cabal install` and run it just
as `slackbuilder` assuming `~/.cabal/bin` is on your PATH.

## Configuration

There is a sample configuration file under `config/config.toml.example`.
Just copy this file to `config/config.toml` and modify as needed.

Each package that should be updated automatically needs a special
description which contains links to the upstream repositories and
instructions how the sources should be prepared.

Unfortunately the only format currently supported for the package
descriptions is Haskell source code. But I'm planning to make it
possible to describe the packages without recompiling the slackbuilder
itself.

For the time being `src/Main.hs` contains descriptions of my
slackbuilds, that can be used as an example and a start point.