On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:29:30 -0600 karx via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Georg, thank you for your reply. > If I am understanding correctly, pkgrel is for changes to the > PKGBUILD, and pkgver is for changes to the actual sources. Is this > correct? > > Yash > > On 3/3/20, Georg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Yash, > > and welcome to archlinux. > > pkgrel is the internal revision of the package, e.g. the packaging > > version. This allows improvements on the package without bumping the > > software release version and is often used for binary rebuild to adapt > > to changed dependencies etc. > > Georg > > Kind of. pkgrel is for changes to the built package, there's plenty of changes you can make to the PKGBUILD that don't change the actual package; those don't require a pkgrel change.
