On 28 April 2015 at 23:04, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> 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. > > That might be the easiest way, unless someone's already written a tool > that solves the problem. Unfortunately `pacman -R` won't work. It will re-run the `package()` function in the PKGBUILD, meaning that it relies on the packaged SW's build system (Makefile, or similar) to first install the built stuff in `$pkgdir`. Since I only have the packages I can't easily recreate a complete `$srcdir` without first compiling... so I suppose I'll have to look into the details of the package format and come up with some script to modify it directly. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
