aurutils: aur-build should not require -f for VCS packages

From aur-build(1) in aurutils-2.0.1-1:

  -f, --force
         Continue the build process if a package with the same name is
         found (ignoring the extension). Existing packages will be moved
         with a ~ suffix.

Unfortunately the check if a package with the same name is found seems to be done before the pkgver() function of VCS packages is executed, which is very un-makepkg-like.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 21 (17 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

aur-build: add --run-pkgver Allows to detect when VCS packages should be rebuilt. Fixes #500 — committed to bartoszek/aurutils by AladW 5 years ago
scripts: retire aur-vercmp-devel aur-vercmp-devel is just one of ways to determine if a vcs package is up-to-date. Rather than trying to make aur-vercmp-devel suitable to everyone, the goal is to fin... — committed to aurutils/aurutils by rafasc 5 years ago
scripts: retire aur-vercmp-devel aur-vercmp-devel is just one of ways to determine if a vcs package is up-to-date. Rather than trying to make aur-vercmp-devel suitable to everyone, the goal is to fin... — committed to aurutils/aurutils by rafasc 5 years ago
scripts: retire aur-vercmp-devel aur-vercmp-devel is just one of ways to determine if a vcs package is up-to-date. Rather than trying to make aur-vercmp-devel suitable to everyone, the goal is to fin... — committed to aurutils/aurutils by rafasc 5 years ago
scripts: retire aur-vercmp-devel aur-vercmp-devel is just one of ways to determine if a vcs package is up-to-date. Rather than trying to make aur-vercmp-devel suitable to everyone, the goal is to fin... — committed to aurutils/aurutils by rafasc 5 years ago
scripts: retire aur-vercmp-devel aur-vercmp-devel is just one of ways to determine if a vcs package is up-to-date. Rather than trying to make aur-vercmp-devel suitable to everyone, the goal is to fin... — committed to aurutils/aurutils by rafasc 5 years ago

Most upvoted comments

As I understand it, the issue is that aur-vercmp-devel is an all-or-nothing deal. This makes me think any non-trivial parts should be moved elsewhere, and the process better documented, since it’s clearly not a 1-size-fits-all solution.

AladW on Jan 20, 2019

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Thanks for the report!

On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 05:44:23 -0800 Jakub Klinkovský notifications@github.com wrote:

I have devtools (required for aur-chroot anyway) so I’m fine with 1.

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AladW on Jan 12, 2019