[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Document package splitting

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 17:24:33 schrieb Allan McRae:
>
> Sounds fine to me. Except the following:
>
>   
>> +An additional directive is available when building a split package:
>> +
>> +*pkgbase*::
>> +       The name used to refer to the group of packages in the output of
>> makepkg. +       Also, used when creating source-only tarballs.
>>     
>
> Is this pkgbase variable optional? Does it effect anything else than makepkg 
> output or the filename of the source package?
>   
It is entirely optional and is only for cosmetic purposes as makepkg 
defaults to ${pkgname[0]} when it is not specified.  I will clarify this.

Allan