On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Andrea Fagiani
Hello,
A little background : when updating a svn package with makepkg, svn info gets called (in the devel_check function) and then the "Last Changed Rev" extracted from its output and $pkgver updated accordingly.
However, while compiling stjerm-svn [1] (which I maintain in the AUR, btw) I end up with a package that has pkgver=256 , but the actual revision checked out by svn is 262. I suspect it may be due to the fact that rev 257 created a new branch (you can find the repository here) [2].
This could be easily fixed by considering the "Revision" value (instead of "Last Changed Rev") in the svn info output.
Question is, is this the desired behavior or did I just stumble into a bug (and should, therefore, report it) ?
If we used the checked out revision, every change in any branch/directory of a repository would cause the version to be bumped which is less than ideal. Using the "Last Changed Rev" value should be a unique identifier of a revision that is not as volatile. -Dan