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

[Allan McRae]

Cedric Staniewski wrote:
> 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].

I do not like the repetition of makepkg.conf.5 here.  I'd prefer just
**PKGDEST=**"/path/to/folder"::
	Overrides the corresponding value defined in linkman:makepkg.conf[5].

Or something quite simple like that.  People can then look up 
makepkg.conf.5 to find out what the variable does.


> +
> +**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
>  -------------------