> >out packages that are originally cooker for other Mandrake distribution
> >releases (e.g. 8.2/ppc). When I do this I try to use brs instead of mdk
> >so that when the next release comes along the Mandrake package of the
> >same version will take preceidence over mine. It's probably more
> >accurate to set the Vendor tag to my own name rather than Mandrakesoft.
> >But I'd rather only have to edit the release tag to do that. I'm just
> >being lazy and trying to minimize the changes I made to cooker packages
> >that I'm rebuilding for other releases. :)
>
>
First my reply to Ben, because I seem to have lost Ben's original message.
In theory you can use --define '<name> <body>' but it didn't work for me
when I tried it out yesterday. Maybe you will have better luck than me.
--define does a define on-the-fly.
> make it mozilla-1.0.0-6.9mdk.
>
> Regardless, duplication of effort is evil, and we probably need someone in Club
> Volunteers to build on ppc ;-).
>
> Mail deno if you're interested. (And that applies to anyone on this list). There's
> free club membership in it of course (since you need to be able to read the posts).
>
And Buchan needs to wrap his long lines. It looks like phpGroupWare is
extremely evil in this regard. :-)
-- Geoff.
