On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst < sebastiaanlokhorst@gmail.com> wrote:
2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>:
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