Directives

Directives are used to specify variables that only apply to a limited set of build targets.

All variables can use directives including user defined variables.

To use directives include the directive after a variable separated by a colon such as pkgdesc__ubuntu="This description will only apply to Ubuntu packages".

The directives above are sorted from lowest to the highest priority.

directive	value
apk	all apk packages
apt	all deb packages
pacman	all pkg packages
yum	all yum rpm packages
alpine	all Alpine Linux packages
arch	all Arch Linux releases
amazon	all Amazon Linux releases
centos	all CentOS releases
debian	all Debian releases
fedora	all Fedora releases
oracle	all Oracle Linux releases
ubuntu	all Ubuntu releases
amazon_1	Amazon Linux 1
amazon_2	Amazon Linux 2
debian_jessie	Debian Jessie
debian_stretch	Debian Stretch
debian_buster	Debian Buster
fedora_38	Fedora 38
rocky_8	Rocky Linux 8
rocky_9	Rocky Linux 9
ubuntu_bionic	Ubuntu Bionic
ubuntu_focal	Ubuntu Focal
ubuntu_jammy	Ubuntu Jammy