From 54f76a17e472b4260c7ad14a178b81ba99a8fcf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "chess.griffin" Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update TODO re: traps and error checking; add TIMEOUT information to sbopkg.conf(5) man page --- src/usr/doc/TODO | 7 +++++++ src/usr/man/man5/sbopkg.conf.5 | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/usr/doc/TODO b/src/usr/doc/TODO index 6ca2b88..274eb32 100644 --- a/src/usr/doc/TODO +++ b/src/usr/doc/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ # $Id$ Sbopkg TODO (in no particular order) +* Add in better traps and error checks so a user can safely exit (by + pressing Control-C) during the source download or during the package + building process. I have spent a _lot_ of time hacking on this but + have not come up with a workable solution yet. The problem is that + many subprocesses are forked off during the package building process + and it's difficult to capture all the pids. If anyone want to help + with this, please let me know. * Add ability to install packages from the command line using a -i switch. * Add 'long' switches to the cli options, i.e. --build in addition to diff --git a/src/usr/man/man5/sbopkg.conf.5 b/src/usr/man/man5/sbopkg.conf.5 index 97ec2dd..e27a093 100644 --- a/src/usr/man/man5/sbopkg.conf.5 +++ b/src/usr/man/man5/sbopkg.conf.5 @@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ output, and to page up and down to view the final output. The default value of TERMBUILD is NO. +.TP 5 +.B TIMEOUT +.br +This option allows the user to define what the timeout value (in +seconds) should be for both the rsync and wget commands used in sbopkg +for downloading the SlackBuilds.org repository and downloading the +sources when building a package, respectively. + +The default value of TIMEOUT is 10. + .SH FILES .TP 5 .B /etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf