On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Maxime Gauduin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Yes, previous versions of pacman had makepkg automatically update the pkgver of the PKGBUILD. Jason
