The following tests are performed by the lint command, and by the build, rebuild and update commands if the --lint control argument is specified. When any tests fail, warnings are displayed and logged, but building continues.

prgnam.SlackBuild

• Should exist

slack-desc

• Should exist
• Should have between 1 and 14 lines that start with prgnam:
• If the handy-ruler exists, it must be aligned correctly and have the correct format
• No trailing spaces on prgnam: lines, i.e. no lines should match ^prgnam:<sp><sp>*$
• No prgnam: lines should have more than 73 chars of description
• All other lines must be prefixed by #, or completely empty

prgnam.info

• Optional; its existence indicates an SBo-style SlackBuild
• Should define PRGNAM, VERSION, HOMEPAGE, DOWNLOAD(_arch), MD5SUM(_arch), REQUIRES, MAINTAINER, EMAIL
• Download URLs should work; to test this, the header is retrieved
• PRGNAM should be the same as the .info file's name and the .SlackBuild file's name
• Each item defined in REQUIRES should exist in the repo

README

• Optional; if prgnam.info exists, README should exist
• Should not contain long lines >= 80 chars

Package name

• Package name should be in form $PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE
• If the slackbuild produces one package, PRGNAM should be the same as the slackbuild's name and should be the same as PRGNAM in the .info file
• VERSION should be the same as VERSION in the .info file
• ARCH should be i?86 or x86_64 (optionally suffixed with _KNLVER, _LOCALE etc), or noarch
• BUILD should be numeric
• TAG should be same as the repo's TAG
• PKGTYPE should be tgz, txz, tbz or tlz (and should be as set by the caller)

Package contents

• Should be tar-1.13 compatible (path prefix should not start with ./)
• Compression type should correspond to package type suffix
• Should only install to (bin)|(boot)|(dev)|(etc)|(lib)|(opt)|(sbin)|(srv)|(usr)|(var)|(install)
• should contain install/slack-desc
• nothing installed to usr/local
• nothing installed to usr/share/man
• all manpages gz compressed
• should install without error