[arch-general] Package release bump?

[Allan McRae]

Baho Utot wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 23:04 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>   
>> Baho Utot wrote:
>>     
>>> I am following the process for the rebuild of all the package that
>>> depends on libjpeg.
>>>
>>> When rebuilding packages due to another package like libjpeg does the
>>> package release number for the dependent package get bumped?
>>>   
>>>       
>> If I understand you correctly, you can add a versioned dependency on the 
>> updated pkgrel.
>>
>> e.g. imagemagick in [testing] has deps on lcms>=1.18-2 and libwmf>=0.2.8.4-5
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> For example:
>
> (from another email for libjpeg
>
> Giovanni Scafora <giovanni at archlinux.org>
> Reply-to: 	Public mailing list for Arch Linux development
> <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
> To: 	Public mailing list for Arch Linux development
> <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
> Subject: 	Re: [arch-dev-public] WARNING: libjpeg rebuilds are entering
> [testing] - devs get building!
> )
>
> "I just rebuilt following pkgs for testing x86_64 only:
>
> xmoto
> scribus
> kile
> kdetv
> graphicsmagick
> gimp-ufraw
> hugin
> enblend-enfuse
> kipi-plugins
> stellarium
> tuxpuck
> transcode
> fox
> centerim
>
>
> Do the packages above get the pkgrel bumped because of the change in 
> libjpeg
>
> Or does the pkgrel number stay the same?
>
>
> I have a "builder script" that does an abs sync the builds only the
> packages in core/extra/local that have changed.  It runs from cron on
> Sunday 1:00am.  If I make a new PKGBUILD for a package I need I place it
> into "local" and the script then builds it automatically.  I build the
> whole core/extra/local with optimizations for AMD k8.
>
> I then sync all my boxen from my repos.
>
> If the soname changes as in libjpeg and the packages that use libjpeg
> don't change ( the pkgrel stays the same ) then the only package that
> gets built would be libjpeg and none of the ones that depend on it.
>
> I hope that helps to explain my question.
>   

OK, the definitely the pkgrel gets changed.  How else would pacman know 
to update the package?

Allan