[pacman-dev] pkgrel in VCS packages

[Christian Hesse]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2013/05/07 19:19:
> 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

Uh, you are correct... This was my local build script - it copied the
PKGBUILD before building the package, so pkgver was updated every time.

Still have to think about how to handle this when building AUR packages...
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