[arch-general] Any way to change .PKGINFO post build w/o Rebuilding?

[Emil Lundberg]

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
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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.