On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 22:52 +0200, Björn 'besser82' Esser wrote:
> Am Samstag, dem 30.10.2021 um 22:00 +0200 schrieb Alexander Ploumistos:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's an "elegant" and "rpm" way to do the
> > following, without calling an external tool (and maybe adding another
> > dependency to a package):
> >
> > Project "foo" tracks the development of project "bar" and both use
> > basic semantic versioning, X.Y.Z. Project "bar" rarely increments the
> > patch version and only for internal development purposes. Regular
> > releases always carry a patch version of 0, e.g. 16.5.0. Project "foo"
> > follows the same major and minor versions as "bar", but they also
> > publish releases with incremented patch versions. Any given foo
> > release should be built against a bar release with the same major and
> > minor versions. Does rpm provide a way to require that part of the
> > version string, e.g. for foo-16.5.4:
> > Requires: bar >= 16.5
> > without hard coding the actual values?
>
>
> This should solve your problem as described:
>
> ```
> # These lines go *after* the package version has been set.
> # Name: foo
> # Version: X.Y.Z
> # …
> %global ver_major %(echo %{version} | cut -d. -f1) # X
> %global ver_minor %(echo %{version} | cut -d. -f2) # Y
> %global ver_minor_next %(echo $((%{ver_minor}+1))) # Y+1
You can also do this sort of the other way around, which I kinda like
as it involves less bash:
%global ver_major 16
%global ver_minor 5
Version: %{ver_major}.%{ver_minor}.Z
you'd still need to calculcate ver_minor_next, though, I guess.
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Adam Williamson
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