BUILDINFO(5)                     Pacman Manual                    BUILDINFO(5)

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 2 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.

       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".

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, 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.

AUTHORS
       Current maintainers:

       o   Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

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

       o   Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@archlinux.org>

       Past major contributors:

       o   Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>

       o   Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>

       o   Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>

       o   Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

       o   Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>

       o   Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>

       o   Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>

       o   Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

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

Pacman 7.0.0                      2025-06-03                      BUILDINFO(5)