[arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sat Jul 14 05:59:21 UTC 2018


On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:50:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:17:20 +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
>>Just to add a build option, I wonder if there's a concept of
>>"inheriting" from a package build, so I'd only add the config
>>option?  
>
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System#Retrieve_PKGBUILD_source_using_Git
>
>$ asp update
>$ asp checkout dovecot
>$ cd dovecot/trunk/
>$ $EDITOR PKGBUILD
>
>Assuming all make dependencies and required signatures are available
>continue with
>
>$ makepkg -s

Note, the "-s" option will install all required dependencies, excepted
of those provided by
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/official_repositories#core , since
it should be given, that those are installed.


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