6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
5:49 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> wrote:
I agree that epoch should not be included in AUR packages just to work around limitations in unsupported AUR helpers. If the AUR helpers cannot properly handle these, then the AUR helpers should be fixed rather than polluting the PKGBUILDs with workarounds. PKGBUILDs in the AUR are frequently sloppy enough as it is. Let's not make the problem any worse.
Jason
The problem is that makepkg will update the pkgver of the downloaded PKGBUILD, so there is no reliable way of detecting an update without either bumping the epoch, or storing another copy of the downloaded PKGBUILD.