Re: Recommended way to track upstream version in Makefile

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 10:19:34PM +0100, m33 wrote:
> I updated again the gotosocial packages  (see on pkgsrc-wip).
> 
> I need a solution to easily track upstream releases in my packaging factory.
> 
> It seems many packages hosted on github have a TAG variable to track
> github's release tag, I tried to to the same for gotosocial hosted on
> codeberg. Is it OK or is there a reserved variable name for it ?
> 
> "
> 
> CODEBERG_TAG=   0.22.1
> 
> DISTNAME=       gotosocial-${CODEBERG_TAG}-source-code
> 
> "

That's one way, but usually I do something like

DISTNAME=       gotosocial-${CODEBERG_TAG}-source-code
PKGNAME=	${DISTNAME:S/-source-code//}

and then use ${PKGVERSION_NOREV} where you would use ${CODEBERG_TAG}.
 Thomas