On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:36:59PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 06/02/10 23:31, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >Is there some app that will do some actions on updating some software ? > > > >Like for example, I want that in > >/usr/lib/firefox-<version>/defaults/preferences/firefox.js user agent is > >set to Firefox/<version> instead of its brand name ? > > > >Or copy the previous version of kernel to /boot/stable before update ? > > Not yet. There are some plans > (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks) but > that has not progressed much further than the wiki page... The customizepkg-new package doesn't yet handle .install files. But it does enable you to tweak a PKGBUILD, add extra files to the source array, and so on. When used with a pacman-wrapper that knows about it, such as yaourt, every time you try to install a package for which you've scripted these mods, it will be built from source with your mods. Once the script is expanded to handle .install files---which would not be hard---this will do what you want. The downside is you'd have to build all such packages from source yourself. A cooperating pacman wrapper will make that happen automatically, but you might well decide it's still more trouble than you're looking for. (I submitted a bunch of changes to customizepkg-new a few months ago but I don't think they've been folded in yet.) -- Jim Pryor profjim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
