On 2013-04-24 15:15 +1000 Allan McRae wrote:
On 23/04/13 17:15, William Giokas wrote:
Originally from Jason St. John's patch, This is a much simplified version explaining some basic functions the four vcs's makepkg supports can use to get package version information.
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Also, note I added "Example commands" above so the we know these are commands. I'd put the command first (in the source block) and the example output after.
I've seen pkgver functions for Git popping up that include hashtags in the version. I expect that this will become a widespread problem for vercmp-based ordering if it is not discouraged. Perhaps you can add a note about that in the documentation, e.g. "The pkgver function should generate a version string that is correctly ordered in all cases by Pacman's vercmp command. For example, Git hash tags should be avoided as these are pseudo-random. Refer to the vercmp man page for information about how Pacman orders different version strings." Regards, Xyne