BUILDINFO(5)

💖 BUILDINFO — the makepkg build tea 💖

okay bestie, so this is BUILDINFO(5) from the Pacman Manual, and it's literally the receipts for how your package got built. no cap. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

BUILDINFO — Makepkg package build information file 🌸

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✨ 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 as multiple key-value pairs having the same key.

fr fr that's the whole vibe — one key, one =, one value per line. arrays just keep repeating the same key like "and another one 💅".

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This is a description of the contents of version 2 of the BUILDINFO file format. 👑

• format — Denotes the file format version, represented by a plain positive integer. it's giving "hello, I am version 2" ✨
• pkgname — The name of the package. 🎀
• pkgbase — The base name of a package, usually the same as the pkgname except for split packages. (split packages really said "we're different 💅")
• 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. that's you, bestie 🫶
• 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.
• buildtool — The name of the tool ecosystem used to set up the build environment. Used for defining a spec for reproducible builds, e.g. the source of the makepkg.conf(5) used. 🔥
• buildtoolver — The full version of the buildtool, for example: "$pkgver-$pkgrel-$pkgarch".
• buildenv (array) — The build environment specified in makepkg.conf.
• options (array) — The options set specified when building the package.
• installed (array) — The installed packages at build time including the version information of the package. Formatted as "$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$pkgarch".

not me lowkey obsessing over how installed just keeps going and going like a group chat at 2am 😭 every single package, with its version, right there.

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✨ 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. 🌈

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✨ BUGS ✨

Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, please report them to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues with specific information such as your command-line, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps.

the confidence?? iconic. but yeah, if it is bugging, spill the tea with your command-line, what the bug did, and honestly the package database too if it helps 💀

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

Current maintainers: 💜

• Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
• Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
• 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>
• Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

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

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — go read your BUILDINFO files with main character energy 👑✨

Pacman 7.1.0 🌸 2026-10-15 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 💅💖