On 9/23/07, Walter Barnes <walter_barnes05@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,

How do I specify multiple group names in PKGBUILD? The use of parenthesis for the group variable suggests a list of strings but looking at the PKGBUILDs for some of the Arch Linux packages I notice those in the devel directory (category?) are in the 'base-devel' group.

Does that identify a single group named 'base-devel' or two separate groups, 'base' and 'devel'? If it's two groups why one string instead of a list? If one string contains multiple identifiers that implies pacman tries for at least a partial match; does it do a partial match for package names too?

Thanks, Walter

That would refer to a single 'base-devel' group. The syntax: groups=('foo' 'bar') And as to your matching question, I'd recommend doing a bit of experimenting to find out. -Dan