-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21.02.2011 00:28, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/20/2011 04:15 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2011-02-20 15:32:14 -0600] David C. Rankin: >>> The question is "Can I do something in the PKGBUILD to tell pacman >>> - if the file is already there -> overwrite it?" >> >> Please. This mailing list is not for people to read you man pages. >> >> Next time, could you first spend five minutes to try and answer your >> questions on your own? Here, it was as simple as searching for "pacman >> overwrite" in Google, or looking for "overwrite" in pacman's man page. >> >> I am sure you understand this would benefit to everyone. >> >> For a more lengthy essay on the topic, see: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before >> > > Thank you Gaetan and Sebastian, > > From your answers, I don't think you read my question before giving the the > RTFM dismissal. > > I know how pacman -f works. I stated that in my original email. I'm not asking > how to make pacman do it. I'm asking: > > <quote> > The question is "Can I do something in the PKGBUILD to tell pacman > - if the file is already there -> overwrite it?" > </quote> > > The only information I found in man PKGBUILD on force was option(force) which > relates to triggering an update even though the version number would not > normally do so. > > I apologize if I missed it in the man page, but that is why I asked. > Ah ok, now I understand your problem. What you could do, is putting the check into the PKGBUILD itself, as an bash command which is performed when you call it, like rm /etc/X11/sessions/trinity.desktop (in your case good), rm -rf * (bad), rm -rf / (fun :)) As you can see, this is potentially dangerous and this is why you always should check your PKGBUILDs before. But in a nutshell, a PKGBUILD is little more than a shellscript and you can do basically everything you can perform with a shell. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1izv4ACgkQcFyEi9ZCdkBDdQCgoTopXVd62NRKJxOYSKVoDuv6 sukAnRPPwC6G8Bvu6So7UYtihQMBoXcz =fIj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
