This is a terse document covering the anatomy of a package built for the pacman package manager.
The following example commands can mostly run verbatim to manually create a
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/ mpv-full-git.txt
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Build mpv package with luajit support for Arch Linux
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| # set variable | |
| _pkgbase=mpv-full-git | |
| _pkgbase_cache_dir="$HOME/.cache/yay" | |
| _repo_cache_dir="$HOME/Applications/git" | |
| _git_url=https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.git | |
| _git_repo="${_git_url%%.git}" | |
| _git_repo="${_git_repo##*.com/}" | |
| # prepare source code | |
| [ -d "${_pkgbase_cache_dir}" ] || mkdir -p "${_pkgbase_cache_dir}" |
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/ makepkg_overview.rst
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A brief overview of the process involved in creating a pacman package.