On 3/3/20 5:44 PM, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
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.
Got it, thanks!
