On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 23:49 +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jason St. John <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree that epoch should not be included in AUR packages just to work > > around limitations in unsupported AUR helpers. If the AUR helpers > > cannot properly handle these, then the AUR helpers should be fixed > > rather than polluting the PKGBUILDs with workarounds. PKGBUILDs in the > > AUR are frequently sloppy enough as it is. Let's not make the problem > > any worse. > > > > Jason > > The problem is that makepkg will update the pkgver of the downloaded > PKGBUILD, so there is no reliable way of detecting an update without either > bumping the epoch, or storing another copy of the downloaded PKGBUILD.
Indeed, but wasn't this already true even before pacman 4.1? -- Maxime
