Validation: All packages were modified to have a uniform Slackware-style build script called packagename.BobBuild. For all bobware packages, a manual 3 phase process was used to verify completeness: 1. Completed package size is checked for similarity in size to Slackware 10.2-x86 packages. 2. The contents of the completed package are compared to those of the original Slackware 10.2-x86 packages. 3. Each package was built with a line similar to # $PACKAGE.BobBuild 2>&1 | tee $PACKAGE-bobbuild.log The logs were examined for errors. Errors in the buildlog could be handled in a number of ways: a. The resulting binary for that error was not included in the original package. b. The error comes from a test-harness, and is ignorable. c. The error gets corrected by fixing or adding the whatever other broken software caused it. d. The error is allowed to remain. Some software for sparc is not platform- independent and had errors/defects at the version used for Slackware 10.2