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desperado

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[solved] Tell makepkg to redownload the source everytime the vers...

Right now, makepkg doesn't redownload the source when the version number changes and as a result, I am getting a validity error. How do you fix this?

Last edited by desperado (2020-12-03 14:43:27)

schard

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Re: [solved] Tell makepkg to redownload the source everytime the vers...

       -C, --cleanbuild
           Remove the $srcdir before building the package.

Update
Are you talking about a VCS package?
Because non-VCS packages should have the source point to a specific release.

Otherwise if you do something like

source=("${pkgname}::git+${url}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

It will not re-download the source, if the file exists.
You can circumvent this issue by appending the respective version to the file:

source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}::git+${url}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

Last edited by schard (2020-12-03 13:36:33)

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Trilby

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Re: [solved] Tell makepkg to redownload the source everytime the vers...

The short-sighted answer is to delete the existing downloaded source.  But if what you claim is really happening, the PKGBUILD should be fixed.  What package is this?

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desperado

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Re: [solved] Tell makepkg to redownload the source everytime the vers...

The short-sighted answer is to delete the existing downloaded source.  But if what you claim is really happening, the PKGBUILD should be fixed.  What package is this?

It's just a little test package I've written.

Are you talking about a VCS package?

I'm picking it from the releases (so no VCS I guess). Think of it like this:

source=("${url}/${pkgname}.tar.gz")

The source doesn't have a version appended to the name. This must be why the source isn't getting downloaded.

Last edited by desperado (2020-12-03 14:30:01)

Trilby

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Re: [solved] Tell makepkg to redownload the source everytime the vers...

It seems you missed the big red warning box here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#Sources

(Admittedly, the context in the wiki is a source file with a version and no package name, but it applies just the same when it has the package name and no version)

Last edited by Trilby (2020-12-03 14:51:33)

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