[aur-general] Automatic package version

[Shay Gover]

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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:29:59 +0200
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> First thing coming to mind: Did you possibly forget to update the .SRCINFO
> file?
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Hoe do I update it from the PKGBUILD itself?

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> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:34:44 -0400
> From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
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> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Automatic package version
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> On 10/26/18 12:26 PM, Shay Gover via aur-general wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a pakage in AUR that uses an automatic package versioning. I use a
> > pkgver() and pkgrel().
> > However I just noticed that the package version in AUR is old. I checked
> > the functions and everything is OK. Running makepkg gives the correct
> > version.
> >
> > The package is:
> >
> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=virtualbox-ck-modules
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> Are you Tharbad on the AUR? If so, you're using multiple email addresses...
>

As for the package itself, fake news! The package is not *supposed* to
> show an updated version in the AUR, that's the whole point of a pkgver()
> function.
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> So how does the automatic versioning suppose to work?



> P.S. There's no such thing as a pkgrel() function.
>

Good to know. Since I need it, What can I do?

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