How to install a modified PKGBUILD with AUR dependencies

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I use a AUR package and normally I would use yay -S packagename to install it and all it’s dependencies. The problem is I need to modify the PKGBUILD prior to installing. I can download the AUR package with git and modify PKGBUILD, but I can’t run makepkg -si because there are AUR dependencies that makepkg -si doesn’t handle.

So I’m looking for a way to either use yay to install my package from the directory where I cloned the AUR packages and edited or have makepkg install AUR dependencies.

All I’ve been able to do up to this point is make a shell script with a bunch of yay commands for all the AUR dependencies and then makepkg -si.

Any ideas on improving this?

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yay has the --editmenu option that should solve your problem. Look it up in the manpage.

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Unless it changed with the recent updates, yay calculates dependencies prior to the edits so you can change deps that way.

However, paru allows this.

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so it sounds like yay could be a problem if it’s one of the dependencies in the PKGBUILD file that needs editing. I’ll run some tests and look at paru

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I think this is the way to go. I’ll do a new install of EOS tomorrow and use the yay or paru --editmenu for my AUR package

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So what about updates? I know that yay saves the files it modified because of the --editmenu session as well as the dependencies, etc in the .cache/yay directory.

How do I run an update if I know that the github repository I used has an update commit. I’m want to run the update with the same --editmenu changes I did the first time.