[aur-general] Bump pkgrel just to force recompilation

beest gnubeest at zoho.com
Thu Aug 10 18:48:14 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 09:41:39AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:26:09 -0400
> Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > pkgrel is supposed to monotonically increase on each rebuild of the
> > package.
> 
> Which is completely invalid in the AUR. How is the maintainer supposed to keep
> the user from doing rebuilds in between?

Why, because pkgrel is now out of sync with the AUR? The user can just bump the
release a minor version, which pacman handles just fine and will still
see an upgrade the next time the maintainer updates the package.


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