RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Ville Skyttä]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:42 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Peter Backlund <peter.backlund at home.se> wrote:
> 
> > I've seen it in a number of spec files. 
> 
> I'm doing this in my spec files so these three variables are at the
> very top of the file, while "Name: ..." and the others may be some
> way further down.

Another way to achieve this is to... *drum roll*... place those three
real "Name:, Version:, Release:" lines at the very top of the spec
file! ;)  See eg. the spec templates in fedora-rpmdevtools in pre-
extras.