On Sun, December 30, 2007 07:02, Dan McGee wrote: > Problem here: > <http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/system/vbetool/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&cvsroot=Extra> > > There are about 4 revisions in a row of this, and none of them had a > pkgrel bump. Our dbscripts suck, but it looks like they got messed up > parsing the dependencies into the sync DB, leaving a nice little > problem on my system: > > $ testdb > missing dependency for vbetool : libx86 > > The package contains the correct deps (zlib and libx86), but the sync > db only contains zlib. Thus, my system is "broken" at the moment. We > need to be careful when it comes to this kind of situation. If you > make a dependency change to a package, you must ensure you bump the > pkgrel when changing the PKGBUILD. It isn't the end of the world if > the end user doesn't see a built package for every pkgrel bump- that > is really for our internal use anyway.
Oh. It was an update from vbetool 0.7 to 1.0... so I didn't see the need for a PKGREL bump. Didn't realise I had to bump it with each commit also -- thought it had to just be right for when the final package went up. James
