On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Jim Pryor <lists+arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Actually, if customizepkg handles PKGBUILDS, you could just add a sed command to the PKGBUILD to change the .install file. (see the kernel26 PKGBUILD for an example) > > (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 > -- Alexander Lam
