[arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> [2013-02-08 15:28:06 +1100] Gaetan Bisson:
>>> [2013-02-08 12:14:25 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng:
>>> > So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics
>>> > subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git
>>> > which is crucial to what I hope to use it for. python-sympy-git in the
>>> > AUR and that's settled.
>>> >
>>> > Then I got to wondering, I only really want to use the -git version
>>> > till the next release, but since python-sympy is no longer installed
>>> > (conflicts) I wouldn't automatically get it unless I check every once
>>> > in a while if version is > 0.7.2.
>>> >
>>> > I figured installing a blank package with nothing in package() named
>>> > python-sympy and with version 0.7.2 would allow me to get notified
>>> > when python-sympy-0.7.3 or later gets in the repos. Is this a good way
>>> > of doing it, or are there better ways?
>>>
>>> I would take python-sympy-git's PKGBUILD, replace its pkgname by
>>> python-sympy and its pkgver by 0.7.2git20130208. Build and install.
>>                                      ^
>> That's a 3. Well, you get the idea.
>
> I do get the idea, but now that I'm trying it out I realize that
> makepkg automatically replaces pkgver with the pkgver detected from
> git.... =) maybe it'd be easier for me to modify the final package
> instead (just change pkgver in .PKGINFO right?)?

I just changed the pkver in the PKGBUILD and did a makepkg -R, that
seems to work.