[Mageia-sysadm] mgaversion and mgaver macros

Thu Apr 14 21:12:05 CEST 2011

On 14 April 2011 13:41, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le mardi 12 avril 2011 à 13:07 +0200, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+>> Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> writes:
+>>
+>> > Hello,
+>> >
+>> > $ rpm --showrc | grep mgaver
+>> > -14: mgaver     1
+>> > -14: mgaversion %(perl -pe '/(\d+)\.(\d)\.?(\d)?/; $_="$1$2".($3||0)'
+>> > /etc/release)
+>> >
+>> > $ perl -pe '/(\d+)\.(\d)\.?(\d)?/; $_="$1$2".($3||0)' /etc/release
+>> > 0
+>> >
+>> >
+>> > this should be fixed before first release.
+>>
+>> Or this should be dropped.
+>
+> +1
+>
+>> Please prefer using distro-name-agnostic macros.
+>> In this case, %distro_release (from product.id macros)
+>
+> Could we have a warning, or something like that so we can do a smooth
+> migration ?
+>
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+
+The only way %mdkversion got really dropped was removing it altogether
+and making the build fail. So a post to -dev saying "%mgaver and
+%mgaversion are gone" should be good enough.
+
+Also note that those two macros aren't widely used in the specs, yet;
+given the fact Mageia 1 is still not released yet.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+