[Fedora-packaging] disttag

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:42 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
>Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote :
>
>> %disttaglong %{expand:%%(rpm -qi `rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release` |grep
>> Version | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 2 | perl -pe 's/^\s+//')}
>
>Hmm, haven't had enough coffee yet, but is the above just to get the
>version of the package that contains the redhat-release file!? If so, what
>about this instead :
>
>%(rpm -qf --qf '%{version}' /etc/redhat-release)
>
>I _must_ be missing something...

You are. We can't use %{version} in the macro, because when its parsed
at buildtime, it grabs the %{version} for the package being built, and
replaces it before running the command. Hence the ickiness.

~spot
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