On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:45 +0100, Sebastian Rust wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21.02.2011 00:28, David C. Rankin wrote: > >>> The question is "Can I do something in the PKGBUILD to tell pacman > >>> - if the file is already there -> overwrite it?" > Ah ok, now I understand your problem. What you could do, is putting > the check into the PKGBUILD itself, as an bash command which is > performed when you call it, like rm /etc/X11/sessions/trinity.desktop > (in your case good), rm -rf * (bad), rm -rf / (fun :)) > As you can see, this is potentially dangerous and this is why you > always should check your PKGBUILDs before. But in a nutshell, a > PKGBUILD is little more than a shellscript and you can do basically > everything you can perform with a shell.
That wouldn't work with installing binaries though, since the check is done before the PKGBUILD is ever sourced.
