[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

[Pascal Terjan]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:50:52 +0000
> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jani Välimaa
>> > <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:13:44 +0000
>> >> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> It seems you can no longer use a variable not coming from a tag
>> >>> as a parameter of %setup
>> >>>
>> >>> The following spec leads to error: line 88: Bad %setup option -n:
>> >>> missing argument
>> >>>
>> >>> %define pre     rc5
>> >>> %define rel     5
>> >>>
>> >>> %if %pre
>> >>> %define release         %mkrel 0.%{pre}.%{rel}
>> >>> %define distname        %{name}-%{version}-%{pre}.tar.bz2
>> >>> %define dirname         %{name}-%{version}~%{pre}
>> >>> %else
>> >>> %define release         %mkrel %{rel}
>> >>> %define distname        %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
>> >>> %define dirname         %{name}-%{version}
>> >>> %endif
>> >>>
>> >>> [...]
>> >>>
>> >>> %setup -q -n %{dirname}
>> >>>
>> >>> So far 8 packages are affected
>> >>
>> >> Similar approach works at least for openttd.
>> >>
>> >> However macro isn't called %dirname in openttd.spec. What if you
>> >> rename %dirname to something else?
>> >
>> > Ah that would make sense :-)
>>
>> It works, thanks
>
> I guess it must be something else than %dir too. :)

Well dir worked there but failed later when generating package :)