[Mageia-dev] Another problem with new rpm

[Jani Välimaa]

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. :)