pkgmanager makepkg arguments explained

pkmanager creates a package from the current directory by being executed like shown in the example below:

pkgmanager --makepkg --pkgname example --version 3.0.1 --arch x86_64 --build_tag repo --build_number  1


# --makepkg switches the pkgmanager to the makepkg mode

# pkgname is the name of the package

# version can be given without any symbol restriction, but be aware of going
# far away from the numbers-and-dots ideology since this field is used to calculate which package with 
# different version and same name should be threatet as a more actual one.

# Arch field is a field to represent the arch the package is built for.

# Build tag is a common sense fieled mostly used to separate the packages belonginess to repositories used in the system.

# Build number represents number of rebuilts done in pipeline. Newer builds upgrade older builds if versions are same.

If we want to build a package not from the current directory we can change the behavior with "--build_folder" argument. It should point to the directory which is the root of the files to be packaged.

Example of how a piece of software can be packaged

# build and install the software to a fake root
cd awesome-programm-1.0
./configure; make; make install DESTDIR=$PKG

# This will create a new package in /build directory
pkgamanager --makepkg --pkgname awesome-programm --version 1.0 --arch x86_64 --build_number 1 --build_tag dev --build_folder $PKG

# build_folder is set by default to 
cd $PKG
pkgamanager --makepkg --pkgname awesome-programm --version 1.0 --arch x86_64 --build_number 1 --build_tag dev