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You can checkout the rosbag package into a catkin workspace, make arbitrary changes to it and than build the workspace with "catkin_make". After that you source the setup.bash from that workspace instead of /opt/ros/groovy and your version of rosbag overlays the installed one.

This is how you can override any catkin package in ROS.

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