On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dave Heistand <dheistand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <dheistand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences with >> > ebuilds and rpm spec files. I can't seem to find a list of all the varibles >> > that can be used in a PKGBUILD script though (like $startdir etc), where would >> > I find that info? >> > >> >> This is missing in the PKGBUILD man page : >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10634 > > Great, that's what I was looking for. So, there is nothing like > $mandir, $sysconfdir etc as there is in spec files? Just want to be > sure. Arch in 99% of cases uses mandir=/usr/share/man, sysconfdir=/etc, and never installs things under /usr/local. We don't want to enforce things like that at the makepkg level however, you are free to build local package however you like. -Dan
