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Lime

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[SOLVED] How to makepkg from local source

Hello!
I have downloaded a tarball from the Aur and when using "makepkg -si" it downloads and compiles the source from Github just fine.
I want to do some changes on the source but I don't know how to get makepkg to use the edited files instead of getting the fresh source from Github. The only solution I have come up with is to fork on Github and change url in PKGBUILD, it works fine but it's a real hassle.
Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by Lime (2015-05-21 18:45:20)

Spider.007

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Re: [SOLVED] How to makepkg from local source

Make a patch containing your changes, and add that to the PKGBUILD

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Re: [SOLVED] How to makepkg from local source

man makepkg | less -p extract

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Lime

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Re: [SOLVED] How to makepkg from local source

man makepkg | less -p extract

I thought I had looked everywhere and I completely forgot about that, thanks!

Solution for anyone else wanting to do this, use -e/--noextract flag.