BUILDINFO

Section: Pacman Manual (5)
Updated: 2019-03-01
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NAME

BUILDINFO - Makepkg package build information file

SYNOPSIS

This manual page describes the format of a BUILDINFO file found in the root of a package created by makepkg. The file contains a description of the package's build environment. The information is formatted in key-value pairs separated by a =, one value per line. Arrays are represented multiple keys with the same value.

DESCRIPTION

This is a description of the contents of version 1 of the BUILDINFO file format.

format

: Denotes the file format version, represented by a plain positive integer.

pkgname

: The name of the package.

pkgbase

: The base name of a package, usually the same as the pkgname except for split packages.

pkgver

: The version of the package including pkgrel and epoch.

pkgarch

: The architecture of the package.

pkgbuild_sha256sum

: The sha256sum in hex format of the PKGBUILD used to build the package.

packager

: The details of the packager that built the package.

builddate

: The build date of the package in epoch.

builddir

: The directory where the package was built.

buildenv (array)

: The build environment specified in makepkg.conf.

options (array)

: The options set specified when building the package.

installed (array)

: The installed packages at build time including the version information of the package. Formatted as "$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$pkgarch".

BUGS

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.