On 10/19/18 8:59 PM, hagar wrote:
Good morning All,
I understand that there are 3 version control tags in the PKGBUILD file.
pkgver - The Actual Package version
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgver
pkgrel - The Arch modification/release count - for changes to the patches, install file's.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgrel
epoch - Special version control number.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#epoch
If I need to rebuild a package due to dependancy rebuilds/changes how do I mark the new package as newer?
Do I increase the epoch?
Or is there another way?
One of these three descriptions explicitly describes itself as "differentiate between consecutive builds of the same version of a package" Rebuilding for a dependency update does, I suppose, qualify as a consecutive rebuild of the same version of a package. :) The fact that it then describes a non-exhaustive list of things which result in consecutive rebuilds (those things being "fixes and additional features"), should not be taken to mean those are the *only* things. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User