How to disable local subcommand for packaging purpose

[mbekkomo]

Hello, I'm one of package maintainer for Termux official package repository and I'm trying to package rebar3. My question is, how can I disable the subcommand local? The purpose of disabling it because the rebar3 package I'll be maintaining contains patches for it to work under Termux, while using the raw official rebar3 binary might not work in Termux.

[tsloughter]

There isn't a way to disable it. If you are patching I guess you could just remove these two lines https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/main/apps/rebar/src/rebar.app.src.script#L67-L68

But note that local install does not download a new rebar3, it unpacks the currently running rebar3 to install. Only upgrade will grab a new binary. So maybe only need to remove upgrade.

Also curious what patches you need and if they couldn't be upstreamed so you don't need to block local upgrade.

[mbekkomo]

The hardcoded paths in rebar3 code. It wouldn't work inside Termux due to Android limitations, so it had to be patched with paths that contains / as /data/data/com.termux/files/usr.