[arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dave Heistand <dheistand at challiance.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <dheistand at challiance.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences with
>> > ebuilds and rpm spec files.  I can't seem to find a list of all the varibles
>> > that can be used in a PKGBUILD script though (like $startdir etc), where would
>> > I find that info?
>> >
>>
>> This is missing in the PKGBUILD man page :
>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10634
>
> Great, that's what I was looking for.  So, there is nothing like
> $mandir, $sysconfdir etc as there is in spec files?  Just want to be
> sure.

Arch in 99% of cases uses mandir=/usr/share/man, sysconfdir=/etc, and
never installs things under /usr/local. We don't want to enforce
things like that at the makepkg level however, you are free to build
local package however you like.

-Dan