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

[Erich Eckner]

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Hi,

scratch that - it appears, I have understood something wrong :-)

(I assumed, pkgver() would give the *latest* available version and then 
the VCS should be checked out accordingly - but it's the other way round: 
pkgver() should report, what version is already being checked out)

regards,
Erich

On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, Erich Eckner wrote:

> 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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