On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:55 +0100, Dries Verachtert wrote: > > > Do you mean the Release tag or the Version-Release of a spec file with 'the > > rpm revision number'? > > I mean the Release and Version tags. > > > If i'm correct, you suggest to remove the release or the version-release > > completely from the spec file.. this would make it impossible to build the > > spec file with a 'rpmbuild -ba bla.spec'. > > Indeed. You would need to specify something like this: > > rpmbuild -ba --version '1.2-4' bla.spec I would sugest 'rpmbuild --rebuild bla.src.rpm' should work for users. i.e 'bla.spec' that gets into 'bla.src.rpm' should be a generated file based on all the data that can be automatically pulled from external sources. - version number - changelog - macro expansions etc.. I guess the tool that does this could be 'rpmbuild' or something else (whatever is a convenient model for the packagers). Satish
