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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2009-05-11 01:16:51 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2009-05-14 16:30:02 +1000
commit5e32928a42366fd3df27ffe108b44fcfe35617dd (patch)
tree5f694d7d035437e85bb638141fbe4131f079b431 /doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
parentde44a0f474f4e78359b890644645bd7e153983d2 (diff)
downloadpacman-5e32928a42366fd3df27ffe108b44fcfe35617dd.tar.xz
makepkg: Document package splitting
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -238,19 +238,14 @@ use during the build and install process. These three variables are as follows:
*startdir*::
This contains the absolute path to the directory where the PKGBUILD was
located, which is usually the output of `$(pwd)` when makepkg is started.
- `$startdir` was most often used in combination with `/src` or `/pkg`
- postfixes, but use of the `$srcdir` and `$pkgdir` variables is preferred.
*srcdir*::
This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or copies all source
- files. Although it currently is an alias for `$startdir/src`, this
- assumption should not be assumed true for all future revisions of makepkg.
+ files.
*pkgdir*::
This points to the directory where makepkg bundles the installed package
(this directory will become the root directory of your built package).
- Although it currently is an alias for `$startdir/pkg`, this assumption
- should not be assumed true for all future revisions of makepkg.
If you create any variables of your own in the build function, it is
recommended to use the bash `local` keyword to scope the variable to inside
@@ -264,6 +259,26 @@ combination with the fakeroot BUILDENV option in linkman:makepkg.conf[5], fakero
usage will be limited to running the packaging stage. The build() function will be
run as the user calling makepkg.
+Package Splitting
+-----------------
+makepkg supports building multiple packages from a single PKGBUILD. This is achieved
+by assigning an array of package names to the `pkgname` directive. Each split package
+uses a corresponding packaging function with name `package_foo()`, where `foo` is the
+name of the split package.
+
+All options and directives for the split packages default to the global values given
+within the PKGBUILD. However, some of these can be overridden within each split
+package's packaging function. The following variables can be overridden: `pkgdesc`,
+`license`, `groups`, `depends`, `optdepends`, `provides`, `conflicts`, `replaces`,
+`backup`, `options` and `install`.
+
+An optional global directive is available when building a split package:
+
+*pkgbase*::
+ The name used to refer to the group of packages in the output of makepkg
+ and in the naming of source-only tarballs. If not specified, the first
+ element in the `pkgname` array is used.
+
Install/Upgrade/Remove Scripting
--------------------------------
Pacman has the ability to store and execute a package-specific script when it