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

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Mon Jul 16 03:40:48 UTC 2018


On 07/14/2018 02:42 AM, David Runge wrote:
> @Peter: inheritance is not really a thing with PKGBUILDs afaik.
> However, you can do two things to get the desired results: Ask for
> inclusion of the feature with a feature request in the bug tracker or
> create your own local repository with precedence over the others in
> which you build your own version of dovecot.

+1

This is trivial to do if you've got a local git clone of the repository
package, as you can take advantage of git rebase to forward-port your
local modifications to newer releases.

Alternatively there is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=customizepkg

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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