Package Naming Guidlines

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Apr 9 15:25:24 UTC 2004


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
>> A yet more aggressive proposal would be
>>
>> | %{!?releasefunc:%define releasefunc() 0.fdr.%1}
>> | Release: %releasefunc XYZ
> 
> ...
> 
>> Drawbacks of this variant are the additional '%{!...}' line, and that is
>> does not work on RH <=8.0. But RH 8.0 is dead and packages in legacy are
>> limited so that manual specfile editing should not be a problem.
> 
> 
> FYI, I've used this type of thing a bunch myself going all the way back 
> to rh73.  How exactly have you found it not to work?

Nevermind, what I did before did *not* use the %1 trick in your example.

-- Rex





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