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I never could get Nix working but maybe someone will

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[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It's documented in the wiki, they are called VCS packages, and it's not the usual, they work a bit differently: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines

You can see in this instance, that it skips the sha checking for upstream source, in line 15 of the PKGBUILD it says 'SKIP': https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=hyprspace-git#n15

sha1sums parameter is documented in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#sha1sums

In the PKGBUILD file you can list sources (line 12,13) and their respective checksums (line 14,15). In this PKGBUILD there are 2 sources: the first is the systemd unit file, it's coming from the package's AUR repo, not from upstream, you can see its checksum. The second source is the actual source, and you can see, it's checksum is 'SKIP' so it shouldn't be checked.

With these kind of packages you can't get notified if there is an update available, but if you install it again with your favorite AUR helper it would update itself for the latest version. It calculates version number from the latest commit hash, before building and installing, so if that is the same it won't update again.