From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.70.47.71 with SMTP id b7mr5263805pdn.1.1422491949413; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:39:09 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.107.128.16 with SMTP id b16ls714337iod.91.gmail; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:39:09 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.43.202 with SMTP id y10mr6711igl.17.1422491949166; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:39:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:39:07 -0800 (PST) From: Antonio Malcolm To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Message-Id: <8f86f5ad-10e4-46b9-90ab-3297f293821b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Advice For Editing, Rebuilding and Installing an XBPS Package? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_5779_1658110090.1422491947898" ------=_Part_5779_1658110090.1422491947898 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5780_2108479158.1422491947898" ------=_Part_5780_2108479158.1422491947898 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? ------=_Part_5780_2108479158.1422491947898 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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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