

Put in ‘69420’, run makepkg -o. It will replace the value with the result of pkgver(). Generate SRCINFO etc., then push to AUR. When changing the PKGBUILD itself, either upstream will have changed, resulting in a higher pkgver and therefore triggering updates for AUR clients, or you need to increase the pkgrel.











The pkgver is replaced by makepkg with the value of pkgver(). Similar to how updpkgsums updates the hashes.