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Updates to PKGBUILD manpage

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Make the manpage a little more distro agnostic by referring to ABS in the
context of Arch Linux, and saying that prototype files are also available
with the pacman source.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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Dan McGee 2007-12-10 12:06:12 -06:00
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@ -20,10 +20,12 @@ This manual page is meant to describe general rules about PKGBUILDs. Once a
PKGBUILD is written, the actual package is built using makepkg and installed
with pacman.
NOTE: If you have a local copy of the Arch Build System (ABS) tree on your
computer, you can copy the PKGBUILD.proto file to your new package build
directory and edit it from there. To acquire/sync the ABS tree, use the abs
script included with pacman.
NOTE: If you are using Arch Linux and have a local copy of the Arch Build
System (ABS) tree on your computer, or are using another distribution that
provides a similar tree of build files, you can copy the provided
PKGBUILD.proto file to a new package build directory and make customizations to
suit your needs. An up to date prototype file can also be found in the source
distribution of this package.
Options and Directives
@ -224,7 +226,9 @@ same directory as the PKGBUILD script. Then use the install directive:
install=pkgname.install
The install script does not need to be specified in the source array. A
template install file is available in the ABS tree (/var/abs/install.proto).
template install file is available with the source distribution of this
program, or one may be provided by your distribution. For example, Arch Linux
provides prototype install files in the ABS tree.
Development Directives
@ -294,7 +298,8 @@ from.
Example
-------
The following is an example PKGBUILD for the 'patch' package. For more
examples, look through the ABS tree.
examples, look through the build files of your distribution's packages. For
those using Arch Linux, consult the ABS tree.
[sh]
source~~~~~