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!

• bin/test: Fix --single with already-installed scripts

• bin/test: Reflect changes in get_all_available() and use in()
• bin/test: Arrange the testing list in build order for --archive-reverse
• bin/test: Faster --dry-run
• bin/test: Cut out repetitive reverse queue calculations for archive rebuilds
• bin/test: Fix --single with already-installed packages

A SlackBuild is available at SlackBuilds.org.

To use a development version:

• Use sbotools-git-slackbuild to upgrade sbotools to version 20250828-f76ca27 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

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.