[aur-general] Git version

Nowaker enwukaer at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 15:27:27 EDT 2014


>> Whenever I update a piece of code,  I would like the version be reflected in pkgver also, so AUR tools like yaourt can inform the user. Any suggestion ?

> Simply put, you can't do this. PKGBUILDs uploaded to the AUR are
> immutable. Nothing is going to magically change the pkgver short of you
> uploading a new PKGBUILD.

Well, you can do it. Manually. Everytime there is a new commit in the 
upstream, bump the pkgrel and upload to AUR. Users who call `yaourt -Syu 
--aur` will get an update. That's the only way.

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Kind regards,
Damian Nowak
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