Perhaps others might find this useful too.
I'd like to give back a little to the arch community by sharing my mkpkg
tool available on aur [1] and source is housed on github [2] where there
is a detailed readme file.
This tool helps to automate rebuilds when they're needed for reasons
other than the package itself has updated.
Rebuild triggers are defined as a list in the PKGBUILD. When a trigger
is tripped then a rebuild is done. This helps when the actual package
is unchanged but something the package uses changes in a way that makes
a rebuild desirable or necessary:
There are 3 kinds of triggers: 1 for files and 2 for packages.
- a package has been installed since the last build
- a package version has passed a specific threshold
- a file is newer than the last build
Some examples of build triggers.
- 'python>minor' -> rebuild if major.minor vers > than at last build
- 'xxx.service' -> rebuild if file has been updated since last build
- 'gcc>major' -> rebuild if gcc major version newer than last build
- 'some-lib' -> rebuild if more recent than last build
- 'foo>last' -> rebuild if version greater than at last build
- 'foo>=3.10' -> rebuild if version is >= 3.10
regards
gene
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mkpkg
[2] https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg
