[Solved] Trick pacman into thinking I have installed a package

First, I would like to say that if there's another thread on this, I haven't found it. I did find one similar thread that was solved, but the person that solved it just gave a PKGBUILD and told the user to install it. I'd at least like to know what he/she did so I can do it on my own. The package I self-compiled was different from his, so I cannot use his solution, plus I just like to know how to do these things should the problem ever show itself again or I need to do this to another package or for another person. Give someone a fish/teach someone to fish...
That aside, one of the first things I did with my arch box was compile JACK myself. I always like to tweak it's options and make it just right for what I want to use it for, and I use an irregular version, so it made sense to compile it from source. One configure, make, make install later, I had JACK in my system! Unfortunately when compiling like that, pacman's database isn't updated so it was convinced that I did not, in fact, have jack. Since then I have lived with editing jack out of the PKGBUILDs of any jack-requiring package I wanted to install.
There has to be a better way! So, I call upon you, those who are archier than I, to assist me in solving my problem! I've been using linux for years, so you don't have to explain it to a three year old, but I have only been using arch for a couple months (and so far, it's AWESOME!). Thanks in advance, and have a great day!
Last edited by nullh (2010-08-10 15:19:06)

My apologies, I've never made a pkgbuild before. I don't make packages, I just use them.
I did make a PKGBUILD just now, though, and it does appear to work. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
For anyone else that needs this, I'll copy and paste what I have in the PKGBUILD file. If it's wrong, you can slap me on the wrist, but it seemed to do the job!
pkgname=('jack-fake')
pkgver=('1.9.5')
pkgrel=('1')
arch=('x86_64')
provides=('jack')
Last edited by nullh (2010-08-10 02:34:50)

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