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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2016-03-28 16:24:22 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2016-05-05 13:57:32 +1000
commit5469161dad387b71d605cfeb2c6c369df6f939e3 (patch)
treeaa356ec34339bfa3681908cde8e6fd7d924fe1d0
parent07ccbc26914bea24983931532b97661a75b8a53c (diff)
downloadpacman-5469161dad387b71d605cfeb2c6c369df6f939e3.tar.xz
PKGBUILD.5: document that the pkgver() function runs after prepare()
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit 59010386106eded2ee67798fa80215f250a53761)
-rw-r--r--doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index e410481b..4b4a22cd 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`.
+
The `pkgver` variable can be automatically updated by providing a `pkgver()`
function in the PKGBUILD that outputs the new package version.
-This is run after downloading and extracting the sources so it can use those
-files in determining the new `pkgver`.
-This is most useful when used with sources from version control systems (see
-below).
+This is run after downloading and extracting the sources and running the
+`prepare()` function (if present), so it can use those files in determining the
+new `pkgver`. This is most useful when used with sources from version control
+systems (see below).
*pkgrel*::
This is the release number specific to the Arch Linux release. This