[arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages

[Menachem Moystoviz]

Thanks.
This: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html#_development_directives
explains a bit more,
but does not state whether, if I define _gitroot and _gitname, pkgver
is optional.
I tested it, and pkgver is neccessary. However, this is absurd and
should be changed in a patch.
I'll try to patch it tomorrow evening, along with PKGBUILD's manpage
and the wiki page.

Regards,
M

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:37 PM, arielp <ariel at drakkn.net> wrote:
> On 8/3/2012 6:56 AM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote:
>>
>> I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages.
>>  From what Allan said on this mailing list a couple of days ago, custom
>> support is being added to makepkg.
>> In addition, from what I can see on the wiki and manpages, the only
>> variable influencing the versioning is pkgver.
>> However, from what I've heard, when running makepkg with _gitroot and
>> _gitname set, makepkg will automatically
>> set pkgver to the date of the last commit.
>>
>> Could someone clarify this? Also, the wiki pages regarding makepkg
>> should mention this.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> M
>
> It uses the revision number from the repo. There is (used to be?) a wiki
> page that detailed how to use the VCS variables. This is the closest I could
> find:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_CVS_%26_SVN_PKGBUILD_guidelines
>
> -A