[Fedora-packaging] Packaging guidelines for Emacsen add-on packages

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:26 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 27/05/07, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Regarding the current Emacsen add-on draft,
> >
> > * Added some more info about requiring a version of (X)Emacs newer than or
> > equal to the one used to compile the *.elcs, and how to find that version out
> > dynamically during package build.
> >
> 
> Actually, I was just testing this, and it doesn't work.
> 
> You added these macros:
> %define emacsversion v=$(rpm -q --qf=%%{VERSION} emacs) ; case $v in
> 2*) echo $v ;; *) echo 0 ;; esac
> 
> %define xemacsversion v=$(rpm -q --qf=%%{VERSION} xemacs) ; case $v in
> 2*) echo $v ;; *) echo 0 ;; esac

Good lord. No. Thou shalt not query rpm inside rpm.

Ask emacs/xemacs what version it is.

~spot