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#1 2026-03-20 20:40:50
- Sinus-49er
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Git Version Numbers
What do you think of the idea of checking the Git packages once or others times a day for the version number?
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#2 2026-03-20 20:43:09
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Re: Git Version Numbers
Why?
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#3 2026-03-20 20:52:55
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Re: Git Version Numbers
Why? Because I think it's a bit silly to have to look up old version numbers of GitHub packages in yay...
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#4 2026-03-20 20:55:09
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Re: Git Version Numbers
Okay, it's just a minor flaw.
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#5 2026-03-20 21:00:12
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Re: Git Version Numbers
I have a counter-question: what do you think about contacting GitHub and asking if they could send you the new version numbers whenever changes are made?
That would significantly reduce the amount of data transferred.
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#6 2026-03-20 23:12:47
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Re: Git Version Numbers
pkgver is stored in the PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO. There is no supported workflow where that information can be updated without a package maintainer pushing a commit. Package maintainers are also asked not to update git PKGBUILDS just because upstream has a new commit to avoid adding extra commits to the git. Imagine for a package with high commit volume how many commits per day there would be just to keep the pkgver synchronized.
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#7 2026-03-20 23:51:58
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Re: Git Version Numbers
only a weekend dream ...o;-D
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#8 2026-03-21 08:20:35
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Re: Git Version Numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
I suspect what you want to do is to compare the locally built git revision against the latest upstream commit?
Just compare those resp. see whether git pull does anything on the packages sources - this has nothing to do w/ the AUR
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