[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

Wed Jan 19 10:24:10 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 19/01/11 08:07 did gyre and gimble:
+> Luca Berra <bluca at vodka.it> schrieb am 2011-01-19
+>> "Name: foo"
+>> appers to be working
+>> in rpm 4.6 "Version: foo" is totally borked, dunno with rpm 5
+>> this is why i will continue on using macros for version and
+>> release. %define myver 1.0
+>> %define myrel %mkrel 1
+>>
+>> Name: foo
+>> Version: %myver
+>> Release: %myrel
+> 
+> Can't follow you there: what is or is not working with
+> "Version: foo" or "Release: %mkrel foo"?
+
+I think he's saying that if you do this:
+ Name: foo
+then you can subsequently use %name elsewhere in the spec and all will
+be well.
+
+But if you use:
+ Version: 1.0
+then you cannot use %version elsewhere in the spec.
+
+So defining it manually is the best way to do it so it can be used
+elsewhere.
+
+However, I could not replicate that here on my pre-RPM5 cooker box.
+Using the version with the tag and using %version worked just fine. So I
+think I have misinterpreted too :s
+
+
+Col
+
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