(How) Can I edit pacman package files?

[Diiny]

Hi,

I have setup an apache server on a RPI3B. Everything is good, except that the developers at apache have decide that listing the server in the http header is a good thing. It's not, and I would like to remove this.

I have tried most things to stop the display of the server entry in the header response. The best I could do was limiting it to "Server: Apache". This helps hackers as they can focus their attack on apache and not an unknown server (like nginx). Also, the sending of the unneed header entry adds to the cost of data on large volume websites. But the apache developers don't care, year after year.

Anyway, is there a way I can pause pacman after downloading and expanding the apache package? Then I can try to edit the source code files by hand and resume pacman.

Ty

*** AFTER THOUGHT:
Or is there a way to have pacman re-install the apache package without re-downloading it?

[karog]

@Diiny All packages are downloaded to /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

Find the one you want, unzip it, untar it, make changes, retar and zip to new package, then load the new one with

pacman -U my-package.tar.gz

pacman -U installs a local package.

[rcUOUSqU]

Thanks!
pacman -U my-package.tar.gz

pacman -U installs a local package. spankhole

Worked for me!