AUR has a bug in the way it versions packages. [WORKED AROUND]

Question

If you check out my PKGBUILD in the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29410), you'll notice its version on the page is "smooth-tasks-pkgver.txt", while the ${pkgver} variable in its PKGBUILD is "wip_2009_09_13".  `smooth-tasks-pkgver.txt' is a file the PKGBUILD uses to temporarily store the correct ${pkgver} of the package (not its mercurial revision), which is then used to update the arch package and PKGBUILD.
It was an experiment to see how I could manipulate makepkg's standard versioning scheme to reflect the actual author's package version rather than the mercurial revision, and it works!  AUR just seems to have an issue with the way it parses the PKGBUILD.
I figured it would be best to discuss this on the forums before filing an actual bug report.
EDIT: changed the title from "... names packages" to "... versions packages", and edited the post body to correct my original misconception the bug lies in how the AUR names packages, and not versions them.
Last edited by deltaecho (2009-09-13 21:48:06)

Answer 1

I don't understand your logic, what is `[ 1 ]' for?  It reminds me of the pieces of code I occasionally come across that look something like:
if (true) {
/* Do something here */
I reckon it makes since to someone, I've just never understood the logic behind such blocks.
The above snippet of code is one way of creating a block comment within Bash scripts, since whatever is located between the `EOF' tags is piped to nowhere (and thus isn't displayed); by placing a block comment at the end of the PKGBUILD containing an explicit ${pkgver} declaration, I am able to dictate to the AUR what the package version should be, and still have the segment of code ignored by `makepkg' when the script is executed.
EDIT: Unless, you mean to use something like `(( 0 ))', which Bash will evaluate to false and thus ignore the proposition.  That would indeed make since, but, in my opinion, isn't really any clearer than my implementation.
Last edited by deltaecho (2009-09-13 23:22:10)