This is purely FWIW and I am *not* suggesting it be considered as the canonical way to provide split packages. It provides a test case for one approach that I have been using for months without requiring any patches to makepkg. Probably best demonstrated as a psuedo example... # cat PKGBUILD pkgname=qt-copy pkgver=4.4.0 ... etc build() { # regular main package build instructions build_doc build_dev } build_doc() { mv $pkgdir $pkgdir.orig && mkdir $pkgdir || return 1 mkdir -p $pkgdir/{usr/bin,usr/share/doc} mv $pkgdir.orig/usr/share/doc/* $pkgdir/usr/share/doc cd $startdir makepkg --asroot -R -p PKGBUILD.doc rm -rf $pkgdir mv $pkgdir.orig $pkgdir cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver } build_dev() { mv $pkgdir $pkgdir.orig && mkdir $pkgdir || return 1 mkdir -p $pkgdir/{usr/bin,usr/include} mv $pkgdir.orig/usr/include/* $pkgdir/usr/include # lazy mv $pkgdir.orig/usr/bin/* $pkgdir/usr/bin # mv all bins to dev mv $pkgdir/usr/bin/qtconfig $pkgdir.orig/usr/bin # mv qtconfig back mv $pkgdir/usr/bin/qdbus $pkgdir.orig/usr/bin # mv qdbus back cd $startdir makepkg --asroot -R -p PKGBUILD.dev rm -rf $pkgdir mv $pkgdir.orig $pkgdir cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver } ------------------------------ # cat PKGBUILD.doc pkgname=qt-copy-doc pkgver=4.4.0 pkgrel=$(date +%Y%m%d) pkgdesc="The Qt Gui Toolkit Documentation" url="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt" arch=(any) source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) license=(GPL) ------------------------------ # cat PKGBUILD.dev pkgname=qt-copy-dev pkgver=4.4.0 pkgrel=$(date +%Y%m%d) pkgdesc="The Qt Gui Toolkit Development Files" url="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt" arch=(i686 x86_64) source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) license=(GPL) --markc