Hi community, I'm developing the tool -- simple script relating to local pacman database. This tool, among other things, need to translate the desc file format (these files are located in a local pacman database) to the .PKGINFO file format (these files are located in a .tar package files). I have the list of all variables that are used in the first and second file formats -- I've tried them all to relate, and I got this: - %ARCH% --> arch - %BASE% --> pkgbase - %BUILDDATE% --> builddate - %CONFLICTS% --> conflict - %DEPENDS% --> depend - %DESC% --> pkgdesc - %GROUPS% --> group - %LICENSE% --> license - %NAME% --> pkgname - %OPTDEPENDS% --> optdepend - %PACKAGER% --> packager - %PROVIDES% --> provides - %REPLACES% --> replaces - %SIZE% --> size - %URL% --> url - %VERSION% --> pkgver - %INSTALLDATE% - %REASON% - %VALIDATION% - backup - checkdepend - makedepend - makepkgopt As you may saw, I wasn't able to correlate it all and I need some help. I know nothing about '%REASON%', 'checkdepend', 'makepkgopt' and why there's no 'makedepend' in desc files (or is there?). Would you give me some information about or manual to it all? It would be really great for me. Also I want to contribute to arch projects later, where can I get some information about? -- Anna Ivanova +7 (999) 105-20-48