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
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.