FS#36884 - Add list of mandatory variables to PKGBUILD man page

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Eric Toombs (ewtoombs) - Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 18:46 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 02:45 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Documentation
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.1.2
Due in Version 4.2.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
The PKGBUILD man page is very nice, but there is one thing it does not have that it really needs—a list of all of the variables a PKGBUILD must have to work. I'd make it myself, but I don't know which ones are mandatory for reasons that should be obvious. Somebody who really knows exactly how makepkg uses PKGBUILDs should do this.

Steps to Reproduce:
# man PKGBUILD
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 02:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  git commit 3e903d34
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 22:49 GMT
Mandatory list: pkgname, pkgver, pkgrel, arch. Patches welcome.
Comment by Eric Toombs (ewtoombs) - Thursday, 12 September 2013, 03:28 GMT
Here it is.
   0001-Added-list-of-mandatory-... (1.1 KiB)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 14 October 2013, 03:58 GMT
Adjusted patch due to removal of license warning. See:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-October/018051.html

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