[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

Wed Dec 26 20:00:27 CET 2012

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:50:52 +0000
+Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 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
+
+I guess it must be something else than %dir too. :)
+