From 0883f45b3a688490cdf57c3ca4b847ce1e21f5ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Schwartz Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 15:13:41 -0400 Subject: makerepropkg: allow specifying the package in pacman -S format We now accept: 1) # nothing in which case we'll use the PKGBUILD to retrieve... 2) name, or repo/name in which case we'll use pacman to cache the package and retrieve... 3) a filename Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz --- doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc b/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc index 0d7ddcb..e9f4c24 100644 --- a/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc +++ b/doc/makerepropkg.1.asciidoc @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ makerepropkg - Rebuild a package to see if it is reproducible Synopsis -------- -makerepropkg [OPTIONS] ... +makerepropkg [OPTIONS] [...] Description ----------- @@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ When given multiple packages, additional package files are assumed to be split packages and will be treated as additional artifacts to compare during the verification step. +A valid target(s) for pacman -S can be specified instead, and makerepropkg will +download it to the cache if needed. This is mostly useful to specify which +repository to retrieve from. If no positional arguments are specified, the +targets will be sourced from the PKGBUILD. + +In either case, the package name will be converted to a filename from the +cache, and makerepropkg will proceed as though this filename was initially +specified. + This implements a verifier for pacman/libalpm packages in accordance with the link:https://reproducible-builds.org/[Reproducible Builds] project. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf