On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Damjan Georgievski<gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been looking for documentation about split packages in the usual places (man PKGBUILD, the wiki) but couldn't find any.. am I missing something or this is a feature-not-implemented?
do we have the same PKGBUILD man page ? :) man PKGBUILD /split 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.