On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> > That's what I was afraid of... does Mandrake have the equivalent in it's
> > powerpack? Or is RedHat's powertools the only source for perl module
> > RPMs?
>
> If you have an earlier source RPM, You can probably just drop the
> newer source package in place of the older in the SOURCES directory,
> make the appropiate changes in the spec file and then do an 'rpm -ba
> <specfile>' I've done this on a few perl packages myself.
>
> For details see: http://www.rpm.org/support/RPM-HOWTO.html
Hmmm... didn't think of that. I'll have to see if the spec files use
$RPM_OPT_FLAGS to see if I can do it that way without any modifications at
all... thanx for the idea!
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