make tag and %{?dist}

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed May 4 05:30:21 UTC 2005


Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how the %{dist} macro is supposed to work with
> the 'make tag' command in CVS.
> 
> According to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistTag one can append
> %{?dist} to the Release field in the spec file and it will be expanded
> to the correct value when the package is built by the build system.

Huh?  We came to agreement around 2 months ago that the scary macro 
voodoo had to be rewritten because we must not use rpm query during 
rpmbuild.  Spot had a set of scripts to replace them.  Don't know what 
happened after that.

Warren




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