[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Updated the documentation for makepkg's -L option.

Alastair Hughes hobbitalastair at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 06:47:08 UTC 2015


At some point back in 2009, logging was expanded to cover all of the packaging
functions, but the man page was not updated to reflect that. Fix that!

Signed-off-by: Alastair Hughes <hobbitalastair at gmail.com>
---
 doc/makepkg.8.txt | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/makepkg.8.txt b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
index faf3e19..bfb0cee 100644
--- a/doc/makepkg.8.txt
+++ b/doc/makepkg.8.txt
@@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ Options
 	linkman:pacman[8].
 
 *-L, \--log*::
-	Enable makepkg build logging. This will use the *tee* program to send
-	output of the `build()` function to both the console and to a text file in
-	the build directory named `pkgname-pkgver-pkgrel-arch.log`. As mentioned
-	above, the build log will be localized so you may want to set your locale
-	accordingly if sharing the log output with others.
+	Enable logging. This will use the *tee* program to send the output of each
+	of the package functions to both the console and to a text file in the
+	build directory named `pkgbase-pkgver-pkgrel-arch-pkgfunc.log`.
+	As mentioned above, the logs will be localized so you may want to set your
+	locale accordingly if sharing the log output with others.
 
 *-m, \--nocolor*::
 	Disable color in output messages.
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2.6.3


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