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author | Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net> | 2014-07-02 16:41:57 -0400 |
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committer | Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net> | 2014-07-02 16:41:57 -0400 |
commit | 800bc090025b154ed8b8909d1f52ecd937bc9d32 (patch) | |
tree | abf0fe9cf0c86b33c2404afd679a16326a2c9a3e /src/librefetch | |
parent | 938a711aae6ecf871f37dda71b8e55bebbb6eba8 (diff) |
Some grammar fixes too.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/librefetch')
-rw-r--r-- | src/librefetch/librefetch.8.ronn | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/librefetch/librefetch.8.ronn b/src/librefetch/librefetch.8.ronn index 3ed462d..c43a575 100644 --- a/src/librefetch/librefetch.8.ronn +++ b/src/librefetch/librefetch.8.ronn @@ -76,21 +76,21 @@ whitelisted locations. ## CREATE MODE -The principle of `create` mode is that a special `PKGBUILD(5)`, called -`SRCBUILD(5)`, that installs source files to <$pkgdir>, and the -resulting "package" is then used as a source tarball. The `SRCBUILD` -exists in the same directory as the `PKGBUILD`. It can be created -manually, or generated on-the-fly from the `PKGBUILD`. Extra steps -are taken to ensure that as long as the same directory contents go in, -an identical tarball will come out--the checksum of the file should -not change based on when it is built or who builds it. +The principle of `create` mode is that a special `PKGBUILD(5)` (called +`SRCBUILD(5)`) installs source files to <$pkgdir>, and the resulting +"package" is then used as a source tarball. The `SRCBUILD` exists in +the same directory as the `PKGBUILD`. It can be created manually, or +generated on-the-fly from the `PKGBUILD`. Extra steps are taken to +ensure that as long as the same directory contents go in, an identical +tarball will come out--the checksum of the file should not change +based on when it is built or who builds it. The `SRCBUILD` is either created, or sanitized if it already exists, then fed to a modified version of `makepkg(8)`. -The purpose of the modified `makepkg` is so that the resulting tarball -doesn't contain package metadata, doesn't end with a .pkg file -extension, and always produces an identicle tarball. +The reason `makepkg` must be modified is that we need the resulting +tarball to be deterministic (as well as not containing package +metadata). When this documentation speaks of a file being modified, it is a temporary copy of the file that is modified, your original file will |