Re: Conditional packages
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 07:17:05PM -0500, Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> was heard to say:
> On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 18:40, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Elie Rosenblum wrote:
> > > In your debian/rules file, could you call a script to create the control
> > > file and modify everything else based on whether it detects that it's a
> > > cvs snapshot version?
> >
> > No you don't. You just don't build some deb's, that is not a fatal error
> > with the current dpkg.
>
> Hrm, alrighty. How do I make it not build certain packages? I don't
> have too much experience with this stuff. ^,^
Just don't tell it to build them. (if you're using debhelper, for
instance, you can use parameters to control what the scripts do; see
debhelper(1) )
heroes does this, for instance.
Daniel
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