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6 BUILDINFO - Makepkg package build information file
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9 This manual page describes the format of a BUILDINFO file found in the
10 root of a package created by makepkg. The file contains a description
11 of the package’s build environment. The information is formatted in
12 key-value pairs separated by a =, one value per line. Arrays are
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16 This is a description of the contents of version 1 of the BUILDINFO
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20 Denotes the file format version, represented by a plain positive
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23 pkgname
24 The name of the package.
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27 The base name of a package, usually the same as the pkgname except
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31 The version of the package including pkgrel and epoch.
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37 The sha256sum in hex format of the PKGBUILD used to build the
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41 The details of the packager that built the package.
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44 The build date of the package in epoch.
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47 The directory where the package was built.
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50 The directory from which makepkg was executed.
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53 The build environment specified in makepkg.conf.
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56 The options set specified when building the package.
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59 The installed packages at build time including the version
60 information of the package. Formatted as
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64 makepkg(8), pacman(8), makepkg.conf(5)
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66 See the pacman website at https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for current
67 information on pacman and its related tools.
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70 Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if
71 we happen to be wrong, submit a bug report with as much detail as
72 possible at the Arch Linux Bug Tracker in the Pacman section.
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75 Current maintainers:
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77 • Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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81 • Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
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83 • Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@archlinux.org>
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87 • Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
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89 • Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
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91 • Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
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93 • Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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95 • Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
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97 • Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
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99 • Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
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101 For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git
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