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authorJelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl>2018-01-13 16:43:12 +0100
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2018-01-19 12:10:17 +1000
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Add BUILDINFO man page
Add a new man page which describes the structure of a BUILDINFO file included in a package produced by makepkg. Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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+/////
+vim:set ts=4 sw=4 syntax=asciidoc noet spell spelllang=en_us:
+/////
+BUILDINFO(5)
+============
+
+Name
+----
+BUILDINFO - Makepkg package build information file
+
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+This manual page describes the format of a BUILDINFO file found in the root of
+a package created by makepkg. The file contains a description of the package's
+build environment. The information is formatted in key-value pairs separated by
+a '=', one value per line. Arrays are represented multiple keys with the same
+value.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This is a description of the contents of version '1' of the
+BUILDINFO file format.
+
+*format*::
+ Denotes the file format version, represented by a plain positive integer.
+
+*pkgname*::
+ The name of the package.
+
+*pkgbase*::
+
+ The base name of a package, usually the same as the pkgname except for
+ split packages.
+
+*pkgver*::
+ The version of the package including pkgrel and epoch.
+
+*pkgbuild_sha256sum*::
+ The sha256sum in hex format of the PKGBUILD used to build the package.
+
+*packager*::
+ The details of the packager that built the package.
+
+*builddate*::
+ The build date of the package in epoch.
+
+*builddir*::
+ The directory where the package was built.
+
+*buildenv (array)*::
+ The build environment specified in makepkg.conf.
+
+*options (array)*::
+ The options set specified when building the package.
+
+*installed (array)*::
+ The installed packages at build time including the version information of
+ the package. Formatted as "$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel".
+
+See Also
+--------
+linkman:makepkg[8], linkman:pacman[8], linkman:makepkg.conf[5]
+
+include::footer.txt[]