Better way to get pkgver?

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index f1c5eed4b2b8..d8514881a4ab 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# Generated by mksrcinfo v8
+# Tue Feb  2 14:20:54 UTC 2016
 pkgbase = strings-git
 	pkgdesc = A custom, Unicode-competent version of the BSD strings utility.
 	pkgver = r9.c455a79
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index c0997aa5fced..7087c61114ec 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ noextract=()
 _gourl=robpike.io/cmd/strings
 
 pkgver() {
+  GOPATH="$srcdir" go get -d ${_gourl}
   cd "$srcdir/src/${_gourl}"
   printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 }