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2010-12-29makepkg: add option to clear buildflagsAllan McRae1-0/+6
Add the "buildflags" option, which is useful in its negative form for disabling CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS when building a package. This is useful when determining of one of these flags is causing an issue with a package. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-29makepkg: Add check() function for running test suitesAllan McRae3-1/+27
A PKGBUILD can have an option check() function for running test suites between the build() and package() stages. This function is run by default but can be disabled globally in with "!check" in BUILDENV in makepkg.conf. This setting can be controlled on an individual package basis using makepkg's --check and --nocheck flags. Addition dependencies needed for running the test suite can be specified in the checkdepends array and are only checked when running the check() function. Original-work-by: Jeff C <jeff@kcaccess.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-29Various documentation updatesDan McGee1-14/+17
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-15Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-17/+22
2010-12-15Document PKGEXT and SRCEXTAllan McRae1-2/+3
Add some basic documentation for the PKGEXT and SRCEXT options in makepkg.conf. Fixes FS#21302. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-13doc/PKGBUILD: document that functions run in -e modeDan McGee1-7/+11
Caught this noted on the forums, but it is definitely worth a note in the manpage as well. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-13Fix manpage wrap not at 80 charactersDan McGee1-10/+11
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-12Add configuration option to control disk space checkingAllan McRae1-0/+4
Disk space checking is likely to be an unnecessary bottleneck to people with reasonable partition sizes so add a configuration option to allow it to be disabled/enabled as wanted. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-12alpm/remove.c : respect --dbonly during remove-upgradeXavier Chantry1-2/+0
When a -Sk or -Uk operation induced a removal of an existing local package, --dbonly was not in effect and the files were all removed. Fixing this behavior was already marked as TODO in database012 pactest ------------ TODO: I honestly think the above should NOT delete the original les, it hould upgrade the DB entry without touching anything on the file stem. E.g. this test should be the same as: pacman -R --dbonly dummy && pacman -U --dbonly dummy.pkg.tar.gz ------------ Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> [Dan: small coding style touchup] Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-12CLI args: update --help and manpageXavier Chantry1-58/+52
The three parts (help, manpage and code) are now organized in the same way and much easier to compare : - specific options - install/upgrade options for -S and -U - transaction options for -S -R and -U - global options After this re-organization, it was easy to update and sync the three components together. Duplication is also avoided. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-10-13Update documentation to reflect new epoch package variableDan McGee2-10/+15
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-10-11CLI args: stricter/better parsingJakob Gruber1-11/+15
In the following, the letters SRUDQ refer to the corresponding pacman operations. Most of the work in this commit is about removing as many options as possible from the global section and moving them to where they actually belong. Additionally, --ignore{,group} are added to U and --dbonly is added to S. --dbonly added to S --asdeps moved to S/U/D --asexplicit moved to S/U/D --print-format moved to S/U/R --noprogressbar moved to S/U/R --noscriptlet moved to S/U/R --ignorepkg added to U --ignoregrp added to U -d moved to S/U/R (--nodeps) and Q (--deps) -p moved to S/U/R (--print) and Q (--file) -f moved to S/U Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-10-11Use sysconfdir, localstatedir, BASH instead of hardcoded valuesNezmer4-9/+10
This applies to contrib/ files, our scripts, and the documentation. Dan: fix 'make clean' in contrib/ directory. Signed-off-by: Nezmer <git@nezmer.info> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-10-05makepkg: remove STRIP_DIRSAllan McRae1-7/+0
For binary packages, the majority of the time used in the debugs symbol stripping process is the actual stripping of the binaries/libraries and not the testing of which files to strip. This allows more complete stripping of packages that install to "non-standard" paths that would not be generally included in makepkg.conf. Any performance hit that may be apparent for (_large_) "arch=('any')" packages can readily be avoided by disabling stripping in the PKGBUILD options array. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-09-15Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-1/+1
2010-09-15PKGBUILD-example.txt: Remove superfluous "|| return 1".Lukas Fleischer1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-08-23Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-4/+8
2010-08-23PKGBUILD.5: document illegal variable contentsAndres P1-4/+8
Signed-off-by: Andres P <aepd87@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2010-07-02Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee2-2/+13
Conflicts: scripts/makepkg.sh.in
2010-07-02manpage: add real world examplesNico Schottelius1-0/+19
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@kr.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-07-02docs: Add a 'website' targetDan McGee2-2/+13
This will allow me to be not quite as lazy in getting website changes out to the Arch Linux server by making it trivial to get everything packaged up and working correctly. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-06-16Fix distcheck invocation in doc/ directoryDan McGee2-19/+10
Commit 5fe41df8 broke `make distcheck` pretty badly for the doc directory. Looking at what this commit was trying to accomplish, it make sense to revert a lot of the build system changes and just simplify what we are showing in the man page anyway- an example, not exactly how it is configured on your system. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-06-16Update website with 3.4.0 releaseDan McGee1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-18Allow to include a path containing wildcardsMarc-A. Dahlhaus1-1/+2
Dan: line wrapping and man page touchup. Signed-off-by: Marc-A. Dahlhaus <mad@wol.de> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-13doc: fix up description of where example PKGBUILD is locatedDan McGee2-9/+9
As Allan pointed out, this actually ships with pacman (at least with Arch) and not necessarily with ABS or any other package. Also fix the language dealing with the prototype install files. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-05makepkg: rework --skipintegAllan McRae1-2/+1
The current --skipinteg is a bit weird. It does not skip integrity checks, but instead does them and prints a warning. Change this behaviour to actually skipping the checks. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-05makepkg -g: use checksums defined in the pkgbuildXavier Chantry1-4/+5
Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> [Allan: amend documentation] Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-05makepkg: improve removal of installed dependenciesAllan McRae1-3/+3
Compare a list of packages on the system before and after dependency resolution in order to get a complete list of packages to remove. This allows makepkg to remove packages installed due to provides. Bail in cases where packages that were on the system originally have been removed as there is a risk of breaking the system when removing the new packages. Fixes FS#15144. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-05Improve documentation of -k/--dbonlyDan McGee1-3/+12
We had the long option wrong in some places and its behavior wasn't documented at all with regards to -U/--upgrade. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-05-05Introduce -D, --databaseNagy Gabor1-0/+6
The request of FS#12950 is implemented. On the backend side, I introduced a new function, alpm_db_set_pkgreason(), to modify the install reason of a package in the local database. On the front-end side, I introduced a new main operation, -D/--database, which has two options, --asdeps and --asexplicit. I documented this in pacman manual. I've created two pactests to test -D: database001.py and database002.py. Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-03-25Update -Si docs to reflect new -Sii operationDan McGee1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-03-14Bump copyright dates to 2010Dan McGee1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-03-14Add new --print operation for all operationsXavier Chantry1-5/+11
And a new --print-format option to configure the output. This implements FS#14208 Example usage : pacman -Sp --print-format "%r/%n-%v : %l [%s]" kdelibs extra/kdelibs-4.3.2-4 : ftp://mir2.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/kdelibs-4.3.2-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz [0,00] Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-03-14makepkg: make strip options configurableCedric Staniewski2-2/+23
The newly added variables STRIP_BINARIES, STRIP_SHARED and STRIP_STATIC, that are set in makepkg.conf, specify the strip options used on binaries and shared and static libraries. In addition, files are now stripped more aggressively by default. Implements FS#13592 the way it was suggested by Allan in the comments. Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-02-28makepkg: Add documentation for the new SRCPKGDEST variableNezmer1-0/+5
Add SRCPKGDEST documentation to the makepkg.conf man page Signed-off-by: Nezmer <git@nezmer.info> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-02-28makepkg: document environment variables PKGDEST and SRCDESTCedric Staniewski1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-12-13makepkg: allow to specify an alternative pacman commandCedric Staniewski1-0/+9
If PACMAN environment variable is set, makepkg will try to use this command to check for installed dependencies and to install or remove packages. Otherwise, makepkg will fall back to pacman. Implements FS#13028. Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> [Dan: move envvar section in manpage] Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-11-30makepkg: allow specifying subsets of packages to buildAllan McRae1-0/+4
This allows makepkg to only build a specified subset of packages from a split PKGBUILD. This is very useful in combination with the -R flag or when bumping the pkgrel of a single package. Fixes FS#15956. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-11-15makepkg: allow the use of only a package() functionCedric Staniewski1-6/+6
For some packages, generally the 'any' arch ones, a build step is not required and therefore can be skipped. In these cases, a package() function without a build() one is sufficient. As a side effect, this commit makes meta packages without any function at all in the PKGBUILD possible. Fixes FS#15147. Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-11-10Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-0/+1
2009-11-10Necessary updates for 3.3.3 releaseDan McGee1-0/+1
Should cover everything worth mentioning in NEWS, plus the version number bumps as usual. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-20makepkg: allow overriding arch in split packagesAllan McRae1-1/+1
This allows building a mixture of binary and arch=any packages. Fixes FS#15955. The value of CARCH is no longer overridden to "any" in when arch=any is used and the assigning of the "any" arch is delayed to during the packaging stage. Adjustments were required to fix installing and checking for pre-built packages of varing arches. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-20makepkg: allow overriding pkgver and pkgrel in split packagesAllan McRae1-3/+3
Fixing a single package within a split package requires the overriding or pkgrel. In very rare (but existing) cases, it is useful to override pkgver. Partial fix for FS#15955. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-11Introduce new PKGBUILD variable `changelog`Cedric Staniewski1-1/+7
Currently, a changelog is added to a package if a specific file with a hardcoded name exists in the PKGBUILD's directory. This approach is not pretty and also inconsistent with the handling of install files, but it works. With the introduction of split PKGBUILDs, however, a drawback in this old behavior has arisen: you only have the possibility to include one specific changelog file in either every package defined in the PKGBUILD or in none. The use of an additional variable, `changelog`, works around this issue and makes it possible to include a changelog in only some of the packages, and besides, each package of the PKGBUILD can have its own changelog file. Signed-off-by: Cedric Staniewski <cedric@gmx.ca> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-11Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee3-3/+12
2009-10-043.2.2 release changesDan McGee1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-04doc: Add HACKING to html targetDan McGee1-1/+6
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-10-04doc: ensure SyncFirst behavior with flags is clearDan McGee1-2/+5
When a SyncFirst transaction kicks in, no flags like '--force' are honored. This is for good reason, as honoring something like '--asdeps' could be quite unintentional. Document this fact and a possible workaround. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2009-09-22Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-0/+1
2009-09-22Update index.txt with new releaseDan McGee1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>