specfile questions
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Feb 24 15:29:27 UTC 2005
Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I'm preparing a package for octave-forge, which I asked about a couple
> of days ago, and I have a question about spec files. Octave-forge is
> closely tied to the version of octave that is installed on the system,
> so the Requires: part of the spec file should list a specific version.
> It would be nice to have a single SRPM that could build on multiple
> versions of Fedora, which may have different versions of octave
> installed. Is there a way to do "Requires: octave = <whatever is
> installed right now>"?
Yep.
%define octave_ver %(rpm -q --qf '%%{version}' octave )
Requires: octave = %{octave_ver}
-- Rex
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