On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 15:36 -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
On 3/3/20 2:09 PM, karx via aur-general wrote:
Hello all, sorry if this is not in the appropriate mailing list. I am developing an AUR package, and it says that pkgrel is a required field. Right now, I simply leave it at 1, but I want to know how I should really use it and what its purpose is.
Thanks, Yash
This mailing list is fine for any discussion about developing AUR packages, including questions about the PKGBUILD format.
But I am curious -- have you read the wiki documentation at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgrel and if so, is there anything that was still unclear to you after reading it?
I have a question about pkgrel and git commits in the AUR. Should I update pkgrel every time I make a commit and don't change pkgver? I use aurpublish to manage my packages and I have some commits that don't change pkgrel because I don't publish these commits. I don't see a problem doing it this way because people who build from intermediate commits should know what they are doing, but I don't know if there are any guidelines on it. If pkgrel should be updated, then maybe the aurpublish hooks should enforce this. Best Regards, Alexander Fasching