On 3/3/20 6:28 PM, karx via aur-general wrote: > 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?
Whitespace or quoting changes. Switching from "mkdir -p foo && cp foo bar/baz" to "install -Dm644 foo bar/baz". Changing the CMake generator between GNU Makefiles and Ninja. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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