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silk

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Registered: 2012-01-21

Posts: 4

Pacman database, 2nd number

Hi,

I'm currently trying to get more knowleadgeable on Arch's package system, hence
why I'm trying to make packages myself.

I did a (failed) test...
In .PKGINFO, I did this

pkgver = 4.0.5

However, pacman tells me, when installing...

error: invalid name for database entry 'testpkg-4.0.5'

whenever I run pacman.

I saw theres another number, which separes the version numer with a '-'.
It looks like $VERSION-another_num
What is the purpose of this other number? What does it tells? The revision?

EDIT: Another question came to me...
What is the purpose of .FILELIST? I sometimes see packages with it, and sometimes packages without it...

silk

Last edited by silk (2012-01-22 18:05:42)

ethail

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Registered: 2011-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: Pacman database, 2nd number

It looks like $VERSION-another_num
What is the purpose of this other number? What does it tells? The revision?

Yes, that's the package revision. It's mandatory as you experienced

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silk

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Registered: 2012-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Pacman database, 2nd number

What about .FILELIST? From what I can see it's not "mandatory"?

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Re: Pacman database, 2nd number

If you're trying to get familiar with pacman, get familiar with git. You would have found this commit:

http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … id=fbd88a8

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