BUILDINFO(5)

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 as multiple key-value pairs having the same key.

DESCRIPTION

This is a description of the contents of version 2 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.

startdir
    The directory from which makepkg was executed.

buildtool
    The name of the tool ecosystem used to set up the build environment. Used for defining a spec for reproducible builds, e.g. the source of the makepkg.conf(5) used.

buildtoolver
    The full version of the buildtool, for example: "$pkgver-$pkgrel-$pkgarch".

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".

SEE ALSO

makepkg(8), pacman(8), makepkg.conf(5)

See the pacman website at https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools.

BUGS

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, please report them to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues with specific information such as your command-line, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps.

AUTHORS

Current maintainers:

    • Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

    • Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>

    • Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@archlinux.org>

Past major contributors:

    • Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>

    • Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>

    • Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>

    • Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

    • Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>

    • Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>

    • Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>

    • Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git repository.