[pacman-dev] pkgrel in VCS packages

[Allan McRae]

On 07/05/13 19:16, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 07/05/13 18:30, 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?
>>
> 
> I thought the pkgrel did not revert to 1 unless the pkgver changed.
> 


I was correct - the new pkgrel is only set to 1 if the pkgver changes:

if [[ -n $newpkgver && $newpkgver != "$pkgver" ]]; then