release number

boogachamp · 2009-03-18 22:31:20

Hey All,

maybe this is a stupid question, but is there a place to see what the difference is between release numbers? An internal to arch changelog if you will?

Just curious.

.:B:. · 2009-03-18 22:37:09

It's utterly irrelevant. The ISO is only an updated installer + the packages in the repos at the time of creation. Arch is a rolling distro, it has no 'releases'. The ISOs are mere snapshots of the repositories at a given moment + the installer.

sand_man · 2009-03-18 22:40:07

Yep. And if you use the ftp installer it's going to be different every time

boogachamp · 2009-03-18 22:47:37

wow, am I bad at asking questions.

I was more asking about packages in arch. Is there a changelog to show why a package was incremented.

from the wiki:

# pkgrel
* The release number of the package specific to Arch Linux. This value allows users to differentiate between consecutive builds of the same version of a package. When a new package version is first released, the release number starts at 1. As fixes and optimizations are made to the PKGBUILD file, the package will be re-released and the release number will increment by 1. When a new version of the package comes out, the release number resets to 1.

.:B:. · 2009-03-18 23:14:35

You can check the SVN diffs online in the PKGBUILD, if that's what you want to know. But I don't think every rebuilt package comes with an explanation .

sand_man · 2009-03-18 23:39:48

pacman -Qc pkgname

Checks changelog but as B said, there are not many packages which show the changelog

boogachamp · 2009-03-19 00:12:54

thanks folks, guess that answers it.

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