[pacman-dev] pkgrel in VCS packages

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:30 +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I love the new pkgver() function that allows to update pkgver string. However
> this also sets "pkgrel=1". Most of the time this is ok, but it is problematic
> for repositories that change very seldom, so a rebuild would get exactly the
> same version string again and again.
> 
> Is there any way to workaround this?
> -- 
> main(a){char*c=/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */"B?IJj;MEH"
> "CX:;",b;for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
> putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}

You can do it like this:

_pkgver=$(your pkgver command)
if [[ $_pkgver == $pkgver ]]; then
  exit 1
else
  echo $_pkgver
fi

Cheers,
--
Maxime