[pacman-dev] [PATCH] manpage update: add real world examples with full path

[Allan McRae]

On 25/06/10 06:14, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> ==>  ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.
>>
>> What is a PKGBUILD?  There are heaps of links in "man makepkg" to a PKGBUILD
>> man page so...
>>
>> allan at mugen ~
>>> man PKGBUILD
>>
>> Now, that does not say where to find the prototypes, but I think it is the
>> PKGBUILD man page that should be adjusted.  It also should be adjusted to
>> remove reference to Arch.  But it does provide examples.
>>
>> Also, the directory /usr/share/pacman is configurable, so should not be hard
>> coded.
>>
>
> I just see now that my git tree is dirty with a previous version of that patch.
> So NAK on the makepkg part but the pacman one is fine ?
>
> I think Nico put enough effort with many resubmits already, and the
> idea is not bad, so I can just pick the pacman part of the last patch
> and push that to my tree, if that's ok.
>

 From memory, the examples added to the pacman man page seemed 
reasonable.  I'm too lazy to find that last patch version but make sure 
there is a "pacman -Syu <pkg>" in there and go for it.

Allan