On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst < > sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2015-04-28 18:50 GMT+02:00 Magnus Therning <mag...@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.
That might be the easiest way, unless someone's already written a tool that solves the problem. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. -- Martin Fowler
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