[aur-general] What is pkgrel and why/how should I use it?

karx nerdstep710 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 19:45:24 UTC 2020


Awesome, thanks!

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:40 PM Bert Peters <bert at bertptrs.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 13:29 -0600, karx via aur-general wrote:
> > Hi Georg, thank you for your reply.
> > If I am understanding correctly, pkgrel is for changes to the
> > PKGBUILD, and pkgver is for changes to the actual sources. Is this
> > correct?
> >
> > Yash
>
> Correct. Although the PKGBUILD doesn't have to have significant
> changes; it can just be that other packages changed instead. You can
> look at the history of the shellcheck PKGBUILD [1] to get an idea.
>
> Bert.
>
> [1]:
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/shellcheck
>


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