[pacman-dev] [Fwd: desc/.PKGINFO files: I need help to understand the values of some variables]

[Eli Schwartz]

On 01/20/2017 05:04 PM, Anna Ivanova wrote:
> I have one question about pacman and I was in a hoping that I write to
> the right mailing list, but I didn't find in the archives similar
> posts.
> 
> So that's why I write here... sorry if I mistook.

Why is your actual message an attachment to this one???

>  - backup
>  - checkdepend
>  - makedepend
>  - makepkgopt
> 
> As you may saw, I wasn't able to correlate it all and I need some help.
> I know nothing about '%REASON%', 'checkdepend', 'makepkgopt' and why
> there's no 'makedepend' in desc files (or is there?).
> 
> Would you give me some information about or manual to it all? It would
> be really great for me.
> 
> Also I want to contribute to arch projects later, where can I get some
> information about?

%REASON% is whether it was installed explicitly or as a dependency for
another package.

checkdepends, makedepends, and makepkgopt are only relevant for makepkg
itself, pacman doesn't use them.
.PKGINFO is not the same as desc, some things are simply ignored.



-- 
Eli Schwartz

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