On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> Coupled with Ville's comment that package QA people really >> should be checking out web pages and so forth to make sure they have >> a canonical source rather than cut 'n paste, macros in Source: make more >> and more sense to me. (Although I'll definitely miss cut and paste when >> I'm QA'ing an update package and I already checked out the canonicalness >> in the previous version.) > >Macros in URLs simply don't work. If you want macros in Source tags, >cut off everything up to the file name like > > Source0: %name-%version.tar.gz Macros work fine for me in Source tags, with URLs and without. See the xchat spec file for an example. pts/34 mharris@porkchop:~/rpmbuild/rpms/xchat$ grep Source xchat.spec Source: http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.0/xchat-%{version}.tar.bz2 -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
