[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] makepkg: document environment variables PKGDEST and SRCDEST

Cedric Staniewski cedric at gmx.ca
Wed Dec 2 13:04:34 EST 2009


Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca>
---
 doc/makepkg.8.txt |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/makepkg.8.txt b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
index 703c1b0..ccb9a28 100644
--- a/doc/makepkg.8.txt
+++ b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,21 @@ Environment Variables
 	must be supported by this command. If the variable is not set or
 	empty, makepkg will fall back to `pacman'.
 
+**PKGDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
+	If this value is not set, packages will by default be placed in the
+	current directory (location of the linkman:PKGBUILD[5]). Many people
+	like to keep all their packages in one place so this option allows
+	this behavior. A common location is ``/home/packages''.
+	This environment variable will override the corresponding value
+	defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].
+
+**SRCDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
+	If this value is not set, downloaded source files will only be stored
+	in the current directory. Many people like to keep all source files in
+	a central location for easy cleanup, so this path can be set here.
+	This environment variable will override the corresponding value
+	defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].
+
 
 Additional Features
 -------------------
-- 
1.6.5.3



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