On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 11:42 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Peter Backlund <peter.backlund@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've seen it in a number of spec files. > > I'm doing this in my spec files so these three variables are at the > very top of the file, while "Name: ..." and the others may be some > way further down. Another way to achieve this is to... *drum roll*... place those three real "Name:, Version:, Release:" lines at the very top of the spec file! ;) See eg. the spec templates in fedora-rpmdevtools in pre- extras.