[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

Wed Dec 26 19:50:52 CET 2012

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:13:44 +0000
+>> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>
+>>> It seems you can no longer use a variable not coming from a tag as a
+>>> parameter of %setup
+>>>
+>>> The following spec leads to error: line 88: Bad %setup option -n:
+>>> missing argument
+>>>
+>>> %define pre     rc5
+>>> %define rel     5
+>>>
+>>> %if %pre
+>>> %define release         %mkrel 0.%{pre}.%{rel}
+>>> %define distname        %{name}-%{version}-%{pre}.tar.bz2
+>>> %define dirname         %{name}-%{version}~%{pre}
+>>> %else
+>>> %define release         %mkrel %{rel}
+>>> %define distname        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+>>> %define dirname         %{name}-%{version}
+>>> %endif
+>>>
+>>> [...]
+>>>
+>>> %setup -q -n %{dirname}
+>>>
+>>> So far 8 packages are affected
+>>
+>> Similar approach works at least for openttd.
+>>
+>> However macro isn't called %dirname in openttd.spec. What if you
+>> rename %dirname to something else?
+>
+> Ah that would make sense :-)
+
+It works, thanks
+