Re: Bob v0.1.0 ready for beta testing

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-01-01 at 20:24 GMT, David Brownlee wrote:

> ability to override pkgpaths on the command line
> - For example  "bob build www/firefox misc/libreoffice"

Yeh I already had this planned, and have pushed support for this now to 
git. I already released v0.3.0 earlier today and don't want to cut 
another release so soon after, so if you want this feature then:

  $ cargo install --git https://github.com/jperkin/bob

or wait a day or two for v0.4.0.

> ability to parse a pkgchk.conf file
> - In particular could help people currently using pkg_chk to try bob
> with their existing setup
> - More of an ask here, though the file format is not sophisticated
> - Alternatively if the above is implemented you could just "awk
> '{if($1~/\//){print $1}}' pkgsrc.conf | xargs bob build" :-p

You could add something like this (untested) to your config.lua:

  local function read_pkgpaths(filename)
      local pkgpaths = {}
      for line in io.lines(filename) do
          if line:match("/") and not line:match("^#") then
              table.insert(pkgpaths, line)
          end
      end
      return pkgpaths
  end

and then:

  pkgpaths = read_pkgpaths("/etc/pkgchk.conf")

My idea is to add a common library of such functions once we've got some 
experience with what features are required.

These are useful for having bob be hooked up to automated CI, passing it 
a list of pkgpaths that have been committed to since the last build (one 
of the reasons I'm writing it).

Cheers,

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