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distag

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Registered: 2021-04-30

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Package post-update rebuild to patch package configuration

Hello,

How can I automatically rebuild a package during its update on my machine to patch its build configuration?

For example with the gdb package: when gdb is updated, I would like that pacman[, yay or others] detect the gdb update and rebuild[ and reinstall] automatically the gdb package with the adding `--enable-targets=all` in the build command line.

Thank you in advance.

PS: the question is not only about the above gdb example case, I would like a solution for any archlinux package.

Last edited by distag (2025-04-22 13:02:29)

Nikolai5

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Registered: 2024-01-27

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Re: Package post-update rebuild to patch package configuration

I could be misunderstanding what you're asking for, but there is this:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/rebuild-detector.7.en

You can run it manually and I believe it also installs a pacman hook to run post update/upgrade.

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gromit

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Re: Package post-update rebuild to patch package configuration

Hey @distag, the flag is already part of the package: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … =heads#L50

But it depends a bit, this is of course easier for interpreted languages where you can actually just patch the source via a hook ..