BUILDINFO - Makepkg package build information file

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO  BUGS  AUTHORS 

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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 as multiple key−value pairs having the same key.

DESCRIPTION

This is a description of the contents of version 2 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.

pkgarch

The architecture of the package.

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.

startdir

The directory from which makepkg was executed.

buildtool

The name of the tool ecosystem used to set up the build environment. Used for defining a spec for reproducible builds, e.g. the source of the makepkg.conf(5) used.

buildtoolver

The full version of the buildtool, for example: "$pkgver−$pkgrel−$pkgarch".

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−$pkgrel−$pkgarch".

SEE ALSO

makepkg(8), pacman(8), makepkg.conf(5)

See the pacman website at https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools.

BUGS

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, please report them to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/−/issues with specific information such as your command−line, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps.

AUTHORS

Current maintainers:

• Allan McRae <[email protected]>

• Andrew Gregory <[email protected]>

• Morgan Adamiec <[email protected]>

Past major contributors:

• Judd Vinet <[email protected]>

• Aurelien Foret <[email protected]>

• Aaron Griffin <[email protected]>

• Dan McGee <[email protected]>

• Xavier Chantry <[email protected]>

• Nagy Gabor <[email protected]−szeged.hu>

• Dave Reisner <[email protected]>

• Eli Schwartz <[email protected]>

For additional contributors, use git shortlog −s on the pacman.git repository.

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