[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

[Pascal Terjan]

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 :-)