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#1 2020-12-03 13:26:10
- 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?
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#2 2020-12-03 13:31:53
- 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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#3 2020-12-03 13:32:43
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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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#4 2020-12-03 13:58:11
- 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.
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#5 2020-12-03 14:50:48
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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)
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