Perhaps others might find this useful too. I'd like to give back a little to the arch community by sharing my mkpkg tool available on aur [1] and source is housed on github [2] where there is a detailed readme file. This tool helps to automate rebuilds when they're needed for reasons other than the package itself has updated. Rebuild triggers are defined as a list in the PKGBUILD. When a trigger is tripped then a rebuild is done. This helps when the actual package is unchanged but something the package uses changes in a way that makes a rebuild desirable or necessary: There are 3 kinds of triggers: 1 for files and 2 for packages. - a package has been installed since the last build - a package version has passed a specific threshold - a file is newer than the last build Some examples of build triggers. - 'python>minor' -> rebuild if major.minor vers > than at last build - 'xxx.service' -> rebuild if file has been updated since last build - 'gcc>major' -> rebuild if gcc major version newer than last build - 'some-lib' -> rebuild if more recent than last build - 'foo>last' -> rebuild if version greater than at last build - 'foo>=3.10' -> rebuild if version is >= 3.10 regards gene [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mkpkg [2] https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg