[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

Wed Dec 26 20:02:02 CET 2012

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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. :)
+
+Well dir worked there but failed later when generating package :)
+