specfile questions

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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}

Oops, I forgot
BuildRequires: octave

-- Rex