Op 26 feb. 2014 22:06 schreef "David C. Rankin" < drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> het volgende: > > On 02/26/2014 05:45 AM, Gesh wrote: > > A naïve reading of [1] suggests that makepkg -R should do the trick. > > However, as I'm away from my computer, I can't test > > this. > > Gesh > > [1] - https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/makepkg.8.html > > With just about every other package, that is OK, but not in the case of tdebase. > There are files autogenerated during Make and copied to 'pkg' that are not > present if makepkg -R is called (makepkg wipes out 'pkg' before repackaging -- > so in this case it will not work). That is what prompted this manual question. > Thanks though. [...] Karol's reply pointed to repkg. A script by Xyne that basically exactly what you want. I didn't completely check it, but it ends with a call to bsdtar to (re)create the pkg. So using tar directly to unpack and repack should work fine ;-). mvg, Guus