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2018-07-25doc: declare what type of comments we support in pacman.confEli Schwartz
Ini-style configuration formats are all over the place. So are we, for that matter, as we switched how we treated middle-of-line comments in commit 8a19c4a78251c5e34ecf508a65d943ca2dc833c7 -- namely, they're not comments anymore. This is surprising to users, who report bugs because it used to work, but what's more surprising is that the only "documentation" for the type of comments users can be expected to use, is by guessing from our example pacman.conf and maybe discovering unreliable easter eggs. Fixes FS#58809 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-07-25Revert "Deprecate --root in favour of --sysroot"Allan McRae
The use of --sysroot in the real world has flagged some issues that need addressing. Undeprecate --root for now. This reverts commit a278356f75866f89232e3e6230bbf9fb2dc1893c. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-06-19PKGBUILD(5): Remove reference to ChangeLog prototype inclusionAllan McRae
We do not distribute a ChangeLog prototype, so should not reference it in the man page. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-06-18Add missing sha224 sums in man page and lintingmorganamilo
Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-06-18PKGBUILD.5: document restriction on pkgrelAllan McRae
The format of pkgrel was much more retrictive than described in the man page. Update the documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-06-18libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild: permit versioned optdependsEli Schwartz
pacman accepts these, and there is no good reason to be more restrictive ourselves; we should follow the example of "depends" here. Update the documentation to actually state that this is supported. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-28Apparently we live in the future!Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-28Release v.5.1.0v5.1.0Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-14Ensure better text editor automatic filetype detectionEli Schwartz
Since we no longer use vim-specific modelines, use the .asciidoc file extension which is, well, reserved for asciidoc formatted files. This should presumably work everywhere without needing editor-specific workarounds and configuration. Also add a shebang to makepkg.conf to indicate it contains bash content. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-14Remove all modelines from the projectEli Schwartz
Many of these are pointless (e.g. there is no need to explicitly turn on spellchecking and language dictionaries for the manpages by default). The only useful modelines are the ones enforcing the project coding standards for indentation style (and "maybe" filetype/syntax, but everything except the asciidoc manpages and makepkg.conf is already autodetected), and indent style can be applied more easily with .editorconfig Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-12libmakepkg: Support file 5.33's application/x-pie-executableJan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
file 5.33 introduces a new MIME type "application/x-pie-executable", which is used for relocatable binaries. makepkg ignored these binaries and did not attempt to strip them. Handle the new MIME type like the old "application/x-sharedlib". Stripping the binaries with --strip-unneeded to keep relocation information should be the correct thing to do. file 5.33 also misidentifies actual libraries as PIE executables, so we didn't strip any shared libraries, either. We now work around this bug. Signed-off-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-12Append architecture information to 'installed' elements in .BUILDINFORobin Broda
Adding the architecture to the 'installed' elements of the .BUILDINFO file makes it easier to retrieve the packages needed to reconstruct the build environment. Signed-off-by: Robin Broda <robin@broda.me> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-05-12Add pkgarch to .BUILDINFORobin Broda
Architecture information is required for repro tooling This is a revised version of https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/475/ Signed-off-by: Robin Broda <robin@broda.me> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-18pacman.conf.5: use consistent presentation for pathsChristian Hesse
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-14PKGBUILD.5: Mention valid characters for archRikard Falkeborn
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-14Update coyrights for 2018Allan McRae
make update-copyright OLD=2017 NEW=201 Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-14PKGBUILD.5: Mention that pkgver can't contain whitespaceRikard Falkeborn
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-14doc/.gitignore: ignore all manpagesIvy Foster
They're all generated during make. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-03-14makepkg --packagelist: just list the built package files we will buildEli Schwartz
Currently this seems to be only theoretically useful. The most likely reason for wanting a packagelist is in order to script makepkg and derive the filenames for the packages we want to install or repo-add, but in the current implementation this requires a lot of additional post-processing which must be duplicated in every utility to wrap makepkg. - It is of minimal use to know what packages might get created on some other device utilizing a different CPU/OS architecture, so don't list them. - It is non-trivial to reimplement makepkg's logic for sourcing any of several makepkg.conf configuration files, then applying environment overrides in order to get the PKGDEST and PKGEXT, so include them directly in the returned filenames. - Output is delimited by newlines, for readability. For maximum parsing reliability, libmakepkg needs to learn how to lint the PKGDEST and PKGEXT variables to ensure they do not contain newlines, which will be submitted in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-01-19Deprecate --root in favour of --sysrootAllan McRae
The --root option was widely misunderstood, and is now replaced by --sysroot. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-01-19Add BUILDINFO man pageJelle van der Waa
Add a new man page which describes the structure of a BUILDINFO file included in a package produced by makepkg. Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-01-06vercmp: fix incorrect info in the manpageEli Schwartz
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-12-07makepkg: Add a config option to specify the location of debug sourcesEli Schwartz
In commit 8b0d59b83a60eb504567590346119fe4cd891cad support was added for storing the source files of binaries in debug packages. Allow the user to specify where those source files should be stored via makepkg.conf Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-12-07makepkg.conf: correct the documentation on the default optionsEli Schwartz
The documentation for OPTIONS and BUILDENV listed some incorrect defaults for undefined options. The defaults are implementation-defined in the source code for makepkg itself (e.g. it depends whether we use `check_option "opt" "y"` or `check_option "opt" "n"`) but were erroneously declared to be "whatever we *define* in the default makepkg.conf". Fixes FS#55754 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-12-07makepkg: implement error codesIvy Foster
For your convenience, makepkg now has 16 distinct ways to fail. Also closes FS#54204. Signed-off-by: Ivy Foster <iff@escondida.tk> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-09-13makepkg: respect $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to activate reproducible buildsEli Schwartz
If SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, `touch` all source files between the (optional) prepare() and build() functions to unify the modification times. This works around build systems and compilers that embed the file modification times into the file contents of release artifacts. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-05-08pacman.8: fix typo in query optionsMichael Straube
Signed-off-by: Michael Straube <straubem@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-04-16add --sysroot optionAndrew Gregory
--root is not sufficient to properly operate on a mounted guest system. Using --root still uses the host system's configuration and there is no way to correctly use the guest configuration without manually modifying any Include directives. --sysroot provides an easier way to operate on a guest system by chrooting immediately after option parsing before configuration parsing or performing any operations. It is currently limited to the root user, but that's enough for restoring a guest system to a working state, which is the primary intended use case. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
2017-04-12deprecate --force in favor of --overwriteAndrew Gregory
--force is widely misunderstood and the same effect can now be achieved with --overwrite, which is better named and can be used more safely. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-04-12add --overwrite option to ignore file conflictsAndrew Gregory
Allows for safer, more fine-grained control for overwriting files than --force's all-or-nothing approach. Implements FS#31549. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-01-13Introduce a 'disable-download-timeout' optionChristian Hesse
Add command line option ('--disable-download-timeout') and config file option ('DisableDownloadTimeout') to disable defaults for low speed limit and timeout on downloads. Use this if you have issues downloading files with proxy and/or security gateway. Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-01-04Document the new query parameter for VCS sourcesEli Schwartz
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-01-04Update copyright yearsAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-01-04Fix documentation of -DqAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2017-01-04makepkg: Disallow forward slashes in pkgverSteef Hegeman
scripts/libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild/pkgver.sh.in now raises an error when pkgver contains forward slashes. pkgver containing a forward slash results in a package filename containing a forward slash, which isn't a valid filename. Signed-off-by: Steef Hegeman <steefhegeman@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-12-05Give a "success!" message on database checkPatrick Eigensatz
'pacman -Dk' prints a "success!" message if there were no errors. It is possible to suppress the output using the '-q / --quiet' flag. This implements the feature discussed at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50087 Signed-off-by: Patrick Eigensatz <patrick.eigensatz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-10-22doc/pacman.8.txt: improve description of -QtIvy Foster
Though correct, the wording of the description of Query's -t/--unrequired option was confusing. Closes FS#48144. Signed-off-by: Ivy Foster <ivy.foster@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-10-22Remove pactreeAllan McRae
This has been moved to the pacman-contrib project. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-08-30pacman.8: fix typo in the documentation of --asexplicitLukas Fleischer
Add a space between the option and its argument. Also, do not enclose the argument in asterisk characters. Fixes a typo introduced in aa4c61f (Document database checking options, 2014-12-28). Reported-by: Luca Weiss <luca.emanuel.weiss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-05-18pacman.8: add link to alpm-hooks(5) in see alsoChristian Hesse
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-05-18libalpm.3: add link to alpm-hooks(5) in see alsoChristian Hesse
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-05-05pacman.8: add actual operation to captions for easy searchingChristian Hesse
I caught myself searching for operations when in need for an option. However this made me find transaction and update options only. So add the actual operations to captions for easy searching. Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-03-28Changed documentation to use 'the default' instead of 'a typical default'Alastair Hughes
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-03-28PKGBUILD.5: document that the pkgver() function runs after prepare()Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-26makepkg: Remove upx and optipng supportAllan McRae
These options were added before libmakepkg allowed passes like this to be dropped in. I prefer only real core packaging tasks to be included in makepkg and additional things like this to be dropped in by a user or distribution that wants to support them. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-23Release 5.0.1v5.0.1Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-23makepkg: do not run prepare() with --noextractEvangelos Foutras
This is partial revert of 8454daa7feef (makepkg: run pkgver() and prepare() with --noextract). Reasoning for the reversion (copied from FS#43498): Running prepare() when --noextract is used no longer allows running 'makepkg -o && makepkg -e' with any PKGBUILD that applies patches in prepare(). [1] Sure there's --noprepare which restores the old behavior, but that's a lot of extra typing for what I believe is a much more common use of --noextract. For OP's use case of doing git bisects, you can specify the commit in the source array and thus skip --noextract since makepkg will checkout the correct commit each time. [1] I often extract the sources using 'makepkg -o', manually edit some source files, and then use 'makepkg -e' to package it (while possibly repeating the edit/package steps). Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-21alpm-hooks.5: document hook running orderAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-20doc/alpm-hooks: mention that hooks must have a ".hooks" suffix.Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2016-02-20doc/index.txt: update for pacman 5.0Andrew Gregory
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

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