[ic] Repost: automating makecat (What to do about the additional_fields file?)

[Daniel P. Zepeda]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2001, you wrote:
> >Quoting Daniel P. Zepeda (dzepeda@satx.net):
<snip>

> I don't think anyone understands what you are asking. I am still not
> sure what you mean by "automating makecat".

Thank you for reading my mind. Yes, running makecat from a perl script is what I
meant, and the pointer you gave me is just what I need. 

Thanks for a great job on Interchange!

 > 
> If you mean running it from a script, look at the RPM spec file,
> which has an example of that. You make a call like:
> 
> 	bin/makecat \
> 		-F \
<snip>
> 		cachedir=$CACHEDIR/$i \
> 		logdir=$LOGDIR/$i
> 
> Note the last two parameters, which are from additional_fields. You 
> just pass them in without a leading --.
>