[pacman-dev] [Proposal] make "makepkg --holdver" preserve the $pkgver, too

[Erich Eckner]

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Hi,

I'd like to propose to let makepkg not only hold the version of the VCS 
sources, but also the $pkgver itself, when --holdver is given (that is: 
call pkgver() only, whenn --holdver is not given). In case, there is 
genuine need for keeping VCS versions, but still updating $pkgver via 
pkgver(), a different option name could be chosen (--holdpkgver ?).

Motivation:

This would be useful for building older packages (e.g. from git checkouts) 
which offer a pkgver() function. ("older" can simply mean, that the source 
is updated faster than the package is being checked into git)

Is anyone else finding this useful? Opinions? If we settle on something, I 
can look into how to implement it, myself (but I don't want to line up at 
the front :-D).

regards,
Erich

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