[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/3] PKGBUILD.5: Mention that pkgver can't contain whitespace

Rikard Falkeborn rikard.falkeborn at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 20:52:12 UTC 2018


Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn at gmail.com>
---
 doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index 3b8c2ed1..cbd02e88 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`.
 
 *pkgver*::
 	The version of the software as released from the author (e.g., '2.7.1').
-	The variable is not allowed to contain colons, forward slashes or hyphens.
+	The variable is not allowed to contain colons, forward slashes, hyphens
+	or whitespace.
 +
 The `pkgver` variable can be automatically updated by providing a `pkgver()`
 function in the PKGBUILD that outputs the new package version.
-- 
2.16.2


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