[Suggestion] Rebuild aur packages dependant on updated packages

[JuniorJPDJ]

Always! But always! When I try to run some app built from aur which was not updated quite long It's crashing because of updated library, but being linked to older version..
Maybe you should consider adding this to your aur helper? :P

[tleydxdy]

yes! a --rebuild flag

[JuniorJPDJ]

rebuild is 1 thing, but I'm talking about rebuilding AUR packages dependent on updated packages

[AladW]

This is highly non-trivial. You'd need to keep a database of all .so information. Compare:

https://github.com/vodik/pkgelf

A simpler way would be to use pacman hooks that rebuild dependent AUR packages on certain repo updates.

[JuniorJPDJ]

I think it's overkill, I would just use package info and deps from here.

[Skycoder42]

Not as convenient, but a workaround solution I've create a while ago: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/repkg/ . It allows to create simple rules when to rebuild a package. Use packages until they crash because of dependencies and then create a rule for that dependency.

[root2185]

There is https://github.com/maximbaz/rebuild-detector for this.

extra/rebuild-detector 4.4.2-1 [installed]
    Detects which packages need to be rebuilt