Translations:VCS PKGBUILD Guidelines/11/en
Starting with pacman
4.1, the VCS sources should be specified in the source=()
array and will be treated like any other source. makepkg
will clone/checkout/branch the repo into $SRCDEST
(same as $startdir
if not set in makepkg.conf(5)) and copy it to $srcdir
(in a specific way to each VCS). The local repo is left untouched, thus invalidating the need for a -build
directory.