[pacman-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix up description of where example PKGBUILD is located

Dan McGee dan at archlinux.org
Thu May 13 19:12:53 EDT 2010


As Allan pointed out, this actually ships with pacman (at least with Arch)
and not necessarily with ABS or any other package.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
---
 doc/Makefile.am    |    3 +++
 doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |   11 ++++-------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index d2f6b35..d5b7aad 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -86,10 +86,13 @@ endif
 
 html: $(HTML_DOCS)
 
+pkgdatadir = ${datadir}/${PACKAGE}
+
 ASCIIDOC_OPTS = \
 	-f asciidoc.conf \
 	-a pacman_version="$(REAL_PACKAGE_VERSION)" \
 	-a pacman_date="`date +%Y-%m-%d`" \
+	-a pkgdatadir=$(pkgdatadir) \
 	-a sysconfdir=$(sysconfdir)
 
 A2X_OPTS = \
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index 2d6589b..e62d520 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -20,13 +20,10 @@ This manual page is meant to describe general rules about PKGBUILDs. Once a
 PKGBUILD is written, the actual package is built using makepkg and installed
 with pacman.
 
-NOTE: If you are using Arch Linux and have a local copy of the Arch Build
-System (ABS) tree on your computer, or are using another distribution that
-provides a similar tree of build files, you can copy the provided
-PKGBUILD.proto file to a new package build directory and make customizations to
-suit your needs. An up to date prototype file can also be found in the source
-distribution of this package.
-
+NOTE: An example PKGBUILD, useful for reference, is located in '{pkgdatadir}'.
+Also located there are other example files such as a ChangeLog and an install
+script. You can copy the provided PKGBUILD.proto file to a new package build
+directory and make customizations to suit your needs.
 
 Options and Directives
 ----------------------
-- 
1.7.1



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