I don't mean to be rude, but have you tried it? Pacman packages are tar.gz archives, so my guess is it's possible /Emil. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:13 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > I patched tdebase for the logind-multiseat patch as was applied to > kde-workspace for Arch kde4. Doing so, I forgot to change the provides= > replaces= information. Now the new package will not install due to every file > conflicting with an existing file. The new file is named 'tde-tdebase-systemd' > and it replaces a package named 'tde-tdebase'. Can I decompress the package and > manually edit the .PKGINFO file and then recompress the file and have it work? > The package is unsigned if that makes any difference. What is currently in the > .PKGINFO file is: > > # Generated by makepkg 4.1.2 > # using fakeroot version 1.20 > # Wed Feb 26 06:24:01 UTC 2014 > pkgname = tde-tdebase-systemd > pkgver = R14preRC1-1 > pkgdesc = Trinity Desktop Enviroment base components - TDE upstream GIT > url = http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tdebase > builddate = 1393395841 > packager = David C. Rankin < drankinatty at gmail dot com > > size = 78513152 > arch = i686 > license = GPL > replaces = trinity-tdebase > <snip> > provides = tdebase > provides = tde-tdebase > > I think the change needed is: > > replaces = tde-tdebase > replaces = trinity-tdebase > provides = tdebase > provides = tde-tdebase > > Does this have a chance of working or should I just bite the bullet and > rebuild the package? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
