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#1 2010-04-24 23:21:45

ConnorBehan
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From: Long Island NY
Registered: 2007-07-05
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[solved] Is this possible with pacman?

Hi. I have a patched version of medit installed and working. I just tried patching the medit source code again and rebuilding but this time due to more changes, I'm almost sure that this will take a few tries to get right and when I install this patched version of medit it will be really buggy to use. Therefore I'm listing all the files in medit with pacman -Ql and tarring them up into a pkg.tar.gz file and making my own .PKGINFO file to go inside. Therefore I will be able to get the old medit back (which is not in my cache) if this one fails.

Is there a way this can be made easier? Like an operation for pacman which will backup a local package and put it in the cache for you? I read the man page and I didn't see one.

Last edited by ConnorBehan (2010-04-25 23:53:29)


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#2 2010-04-24 23:40:32

lucke
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From: Poland
Registered: 2004-11-30
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Re: [solved] Is this possible with pacman?

"makepkg -R" should make a package out of the pkg dir. Might be easier for you.

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#3 2010-04-24 23:56:09

Allan
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From: Brisbane, AU
Registered: 2007-06-09
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Re: [solved] Is this possible with pacman?

pacman -S pacman-contrib
bacman <pkg>


All this to save a 850K download... big_smile

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