Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package?

Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package?

[Antonio Malcolm]

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Currently, I'm planning to rebuild cinnamon-settings, to adjust the DPI 
settings for y hidpi display (cinnamon overrides manually-configured xorg, 
so I have little choice).
My plan is to grab the source, via git and xbps-src, starting with the 
instructions found here: https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages
I imagine I won't need to perform any additional configuration, as I'm 
starting with a Void source package, and simply editing a line or two of C 
code, then building and installing.

Given the instructions at the aforementioned page, I ought to be able to 
simply edit the appropriate .c file in the package, then do the following:

$ ./xbps-src pkg cinnamon-settings
$ xbps-install --repository=/path/to/hostdir/binpkgs/..



That looks deceptively simple. Is there anything I'm missing?

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Re: Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package?

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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After cloning the void-packages repository the first thing you need to do 
is create the bootstrap environment:

./xbps-src binary-bootstrap

The next step depends on what you want to achieve. Do you want to update 
the package for future use by you and/or others? Then the cleanest way 
would be to put a patch-file into "srcpkgs/<packagename>/patches/". Then 
increase the revision in "srcpkgs/<packagename>/template". This is of 
course the tricky part. Afterwards you can build an dinstall the package as 
you have written. Just add the package name at the end of your xbps-install 
line :)

If you only want to make the changes this one time and not preserve them 
you can get xbps-src to get the sources for you:

./xbps-src extract <packagename>

Edit the the sources as desired in 
"masterdir/builddir/<packagename+version>/"

Build and install like this:

./xbps-src -C -f pkg <packagename>
xbps-install -f --repository=/path/to/hostdir/binpkgs <packagename>


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Re: Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package?

[Juan RP]

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Additionally to what Steffan said, if you've installed a custom pkg, you 
should put it on *hold* mode
with xbps-pkgdb(8):

# xbps-pkgdb -m hold <pkgname>

This will avoid updates with `xbps-install -u` and will have to be updated 
manually, i.e `xbps-install -u <pkgname>`.

For 0.44, I want to add a feature to only update a package if there's a new 
version in the same repository of
what was used for installation.

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Re: Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package?

[Antonio Malcolm]

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Awesome. Thanks, guys!

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