composer-patches VS paru

if you're using composer with joomla, and the plugin is installed via composer, you can commission someone to make the necessary changes, create a git diff patch that encapsulates the changes, then leverage cweagans/composer-patches to make it work. if/when new changes are necessary, they can build a new patch.

I've had problems with libraries using final having an API that isn't customizable enough in a particular way I need because I'm innovating in some way they could never have considered in the past, so my choice ends up either needing to fork the library or monkey patch it with https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches so I can get rid of final so I can keep using it. They wouldn't accept a change in API or behaviour because it would break things for other users, etc.

There are cool tools to integrate patches from drupal.org (or your own custom patches) into your composer managed drupal website. For example (not drupal specific but works well with drupal+composer): https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches

If the PR get's merged, I want `yay` or `pacman` to skip the patch. Ideally it would be declared in a pacman.patches file or similar to what https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches provides for composer PHP package managment.

This has been an issue for a while, and is outlined here: - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/172#issuecomment-587147692 - https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches/issues/326

Install a package that allows the composer to work with patches:

And if for some reason you do not want to make a fork, you can also create a composer patch with the help of https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches

https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches - this lets you patch packages when they are pulled in by Composer. I have used it in the past to get minor bugfixes into a project ASAP without having to wait for upstream or forking the entire package.

I would also get a AUR helper, I'd recommend paru (don't forget to configure /etc/paru.conf). Just make sure you're checking the validity of AUR packages.

as the uncommented lines. This has been the default since at least April 2022.

I've just discovered that paru supports adding your own changes to PKGBUILD files if they are committed to the cached git repos and merging them with any upstream upgrades:

If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.

paru is an AUR Helper, which also will perform pacman actions (install, upgrade, removal, etc)

maybe check out paru - it throws up the PKGBUILD whenever you’re installing a package (or upgrading one when it’s changed)

paru: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

Thanks. Installing intel-ipu6-dkms-git from AUR using paru is giving error, says