Hi, Dan suggested I send this to the pacman-dev list. After completing some research and asking alot of questions I present some minor changes to PKGBUILD.proto supplied as a .diff to be merged after your approval. I believe it helps the intended audience create a better PKGBUILD in less time according to the latest Arch Packaging Standards. Cheers Jud Inline: --- PKGBUILD.proto 2008-12-05 23:32:33.000005000 +1000 +++ PKGBUILD.proto.new 2008-12-05 23:37:45.374547000 +1000 @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ # NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is unknown, # then please put 'unknown'. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail@domain.com> + +# Contributor: Your Name <youremail@domain.com> # Use dots only to reduce spam + pkgname=NAME -pkgver=VERSION +pkgver=VERSION # Note: if pkgver is '0.99-10' then use an underscore, i.e. '0.99_10' pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="" -arch=() -url="" +url="http://ADDRESS/" +arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') groups=() depends=() @@ -20,17 +22,13 @@ replaces=() backup=() options=() -install= -source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) -noextract=() -md5sums=() #generate with 'makepkg -g' +install=(${pkgname}.install) +source=(http://ADDRESS/TO/FILE/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz) +md5sums=() # Generate with 'makepkg -g' build() { - cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" - - ./configure --prefix=/usr + cd ${srcdir}${pkgname}-${pkgver} + ./configure --prefix=usr make || return 1 - make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install + make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1 } - -# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: