On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Heiko Baums <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:51:29 -0700 > schrieb Smartboy <[email protected]>: > > > In order for it to be updated in AUR, you need to at least increment > > the PKGBUILD's pkgrel by one. Otherwise it won't update it. > > That's not true. AUR will also update packages without incrementing the > pkgrel. But the AUR scripts like yaourt and aurbuild won't > automatically install the updated packages if the pkgrel isn't > incremented. > > But I don't know the official policy for this. > > A few days ago I had to do small changes at a PKGBUILD. Because it > wasn't a real update and didn't affect already installed packages, I > didn't want to force the users to recompile the package. So I updated > the PKGBUILD without incrementing the pkgrel. > > Heiko > That is odd, when I try to upload a PKGBUILD without updating teh pkgrel, the PKGBUILD stays the same. Though, it could be me forgetting to clear the cache. :P
