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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2012-07-23 16:50:01 +1000 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2012-08-04 00:16:39 +1000 |
| commit | c887ccf90553ffb00825353d98c47fea909ba611 (patch) | |
| tree | 599603b16868b1b2da8dd6211cad2ccd37b9564b /doc | |
| parent | e0cd7b02932e5472f4c4fa30896ff73240dc9341 (diff) | |
| download | pacman-c887ccf90553ffb00825353d98c47fea909ba611.tar.xz | |
doc: document automatically updating the pkgver variable
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index a8d3f891..48820e5c 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`. *pkgver*:: The version of the software as released from the author (e.g., '2.7.1'). The variable is not allowed to contain colons or hyphens. ++ +The `pkgver` variable can be automatically updated by providing a `pkgver()` function +in the PKGBUILD that outputs the new package version. This is run after downloading +and extracting the sources so can use those files in determining the new `pkgver`. +This is most useful when used with sources from version control systems (see below). *pkgrel*:: This is the release number specific to the Arch Linux release. This |