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| author | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> | 2020-06-08 15:13:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org> | 2021-01-27 00:56:48 +0100 |
| commit | 0883f45b3a688490cdf57c3ca4b847ce1e21f5ee (patch) | |
| tree | d5b438c1e76b5ea22800e815fa846331fa14bbce /doc | |
| parent | 99c2020d47aea5409212e54d505a8d285057021d (diff) | |
| download | devtools32-0883f45b3a688490cdf57c3ca4b847ce1e21f5ee.tar.xz | |
makerepropkg: allow specifying the package in pacman -S format
We now accept:
1) # nothing
in which case we'll use the PKGBUILD to retrieve...
2) name, or repo/name
in which case we'll use pacman to cache the package and retrieve...
3) a filename
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc b/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc index 0d7ddcb..e9f4c24 100644 --- a/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc +++ b/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ makerepropkg - Rebuild a package to see if it is reproducible Synopsis -------- -makerepropkg [OPTIONS] <package_file>... +makerepropkg [OPTIONS] [<package_file|pkgname>...] Description ----------- @@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ When given multiple packages, additional package files are assumed to be split packages and will be treated as additional artifacts to compare during the verification step. +A valid target(s) for pacman -S can be specified instead, and makerepropkg will +download it to the cache if needed. This is mostly useful to specify which +repository to retrieve from. If no positional arguments are specified, the +targets will be sourced from the PKGBUILD. + +In either case, the package name will be converted to a filename from the +cache, and makerepropkg will proceed as though this filename was initially +specified. + This implements a verifier for pacman/libalpm packages in accordance with the link:https://reproducible-builds.org/[Reproducible Builds] project. |