On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst < sebastiaanlokhorst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make > > some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few > > hours to build them all I'd prefer to avoid dong that. So, is there > > a tool out there that allows me to make some minor changes to the meta > > data of a package? > > > > A package is just a tar.xz, so you can simply unzip it, edit the .PKGINFO > file, and zip it again. (I think) > Alternatively, if the PKGBUILD is updated makepkg has an option to --repackage without redoing build() Editing .PKGINFO might be faster, but repackaging is the "correct" way to do it, for however much that's worth. -- Eli Schwartz
