On Tue, Mar 3, 2020, 5:23 PM Doug Newgard via aur-general < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:29:30 -0600 > karx via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Georg, thank you for your reply. > > If I am understanding correctly, pkgrel is for changes to the > > PKGBUILD, and pkgver is for changes to the actual sources. Is this > > correct? > > > > Yash > > > > On 3/3/20, Georg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Yash, > > > and welcome to archlinux. > > > pkgrel is the internal revision of the package, e.g. the packaging > > > version. This allows improvements on the package without bumping the > > > software release version and is often used for binary rebuild to adapt > > > to changed dependencies etc. > > > Georg > > > > > Kind of. pkgrel is for changes to the built package, there's plenty of > changes > you can make to the PKGBUILD that don't change the actual package; those > don't > require a pkgrel change. > Like what? >
