[arch-general] Modify installed package version

Damjan gdamjan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 07:40:19 EDT 2012


> I have a few packages locally compiled, for example mutt. I have stripped
> all unnecessary options from mutt, and added it to IgnorePkg. Now when an
> upgrade is available, i see the changes and decide whether to upgrade or
> not. In case of mutt, the last two upgrades had added patches which i didn't
> need. So i just changed the version in PKGBUILD to correspond to the arch repos.

In your case, I believe it's easiest if you change the name of the 
package to "mutt-custom" or some-such. Optionally you could also add 
provides=(mutt) if there are some other packages that depend on mutt.

-- 
дамјан


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