Re: [aur-general] package version with hyphen

2010/3/29 Hervé Cauwelier <herve@oursours.net>:

Hi,

I've just noticed pkgver is not interpreted when uploading to AUR.

I am packaging a program versionned "1.0-beta" and I learned hypens are forbidden in pkgver: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

I first tried this:

_pkgver=1.0-beta pkgver=${pkgver/-/_}

But it was displayed as something like "pkgver/-/_}".

So I had to double the declaration:

pkgver=1.0-beta pkgver=1.0_beta

The wiki doesn't give tips for cases like this. What would be your advice for not repeating myself?

Thanks,

-- Hervé Cauwelier

just use pkgver=1.0beta, you can just type the currect version in the source url yourself I suppose. Ronald