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 multiple keys with the same value.

DESCRIPTION

       This is a description of the contents of version 1 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.

       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, submit a bug report with as much detail as possible at the Arch Linux Bug Tracker
       in the Pacman section.

AUTHORS

       Current maintainers:

       •   Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

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

       •   Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

       •   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>

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