[arch-dev-public] What not to do when packaging (vbetool)

[Dan McGee]

On Dec 29, 2007 3:21 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, December 30, 2007 07:02, Dan McGee wrote:
> > Problem here:
> > <http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/system/vbetool/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&cvsroot=Extra>
> >
> > There are about 4 revisions in a row of this, and none of them had a
> > pkgrel bump. Our dbscripts suck, but it looks like they got messed up
> > parsing the dependencies into the sync DB, leaving a nice little
> > problem on my system:
> >
> > $ testdb
> > missing dependency for vbetool : libx86
> >
> > The package contains the correct deps (zlib and libx86), but the sync
> > db only contains zlib. Thus, my system is "broken" at the moment. We
> > need to be careful when it comes to this kind of situation. If you
> > make a dependency change to a package, you must ensure you bump the
> > pkgrel when changing the PKGBUILD. It isn't the end of the world if
> > the end user doesn't see a built package for every pkgrel bump- that
> > is really for our internal use anyway.
>
> Oh. It was an update from vbetool 0.7 to 1.0... so I didn't see the need
> for a PKGREL bump. Didn't realise I had to bump it with each commit also
> -- thought it had to just be right for when the final package went up.

Yeah, I'm not completely sure what happened. However, if you are going
to do incremental checkins, I'd recommend using the cvs tools directly
instead of extrapkg (which moves the CURRENT tag every time). It was
more just something that came up when debugging pacman (thinking it
was a pacman bug), and just wanted to let everyone know that weird
things can happen.

-Dan