[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Added list of mandatory options to PKGBUILD's man page

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 13 23:58:01 EDT 2013


From: Eric Toombs <ewtoombs at uwaterloo.ca>

[Allan: Adjust wording due to remove al license warning]
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
---
 doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index 1b229aa..4ac7dc1 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ Options and Directives
 ----------------------
 The following is a list of standard options and directives available for use
 in a PKGBUILD. These are all understood and interpreted by makepkg, and most
-of them will be directly transferred to the built package.
+of them will be directly transferred to the built package. The mandatory
+fields for a minimally functional PKGBUILD are *pkgname*, *pkgver*, *pkgrel*
+and *arch*.
 
 If you need to create any custom variables for use in your build process, it is
 recommended to prefix their name with an '_' (underscore).
-- 
1.8.4



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