Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Fedora FC5 running hapily on my laptop. Regularly I build my own
> RPM packages, starting from *.src.rpm source packages and applying my
> personal patches.
>
> In the header of some SPEC files I find something like:
>
> Release: 3%{?dist}
>
> Which should - I guess - automatically be expanded to "3.fc5" while
> building the rpm package. But on my system this is ignored and the built
> package will only have "3" as release number. No big deal, but what's
> missing on my system ? Maybe I should edit the rpm macro files somewhere ?

No it is not automatically expanded to show the distro version, you need to
supply the information by adding it to the spec file or when typing the
rpmbuild command;

Spec file addition: %define dist .fc5
rpmbuild -bb --define 'dist .fc5' foo.spec

What really makes this fun is when you use the define statement the binary
packagename(s) results can be different;

rpmbuild -bb --define 'dist .xyz' foo.spec

The resulting binary rpm package(s0 will have .xyz as part of the package
name. Consider that setting the define dist statement as a quick and easy
way to know if the packages are meant for the distro in question.


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