[aur-general] Incrementing pkgrel

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 18:51:29 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Nicola Fontana <ntd at entidi.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> what is the common practice when facing a PKGBUILD update that does not
> change the final binary package nor the dependency tree (let's say, a
> type in an "echo" message or a wrong # Contributor: line)? Do I have to
> increment the pkgrel value anyway?
>
> This is the guilty PKGBUILD: it is pretty straightforward but... just in
> case I have made some other stupid mistake.
>
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2panel/gtk2panel/PKGBUILD
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Nicola
>

In order for it to be updated in AUR, you need to at least increment the
PKGBUILD's pkgrel by one. Otherwise it won't update it.


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