Re: RPM question: How to get the package VR from a dependency generator

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* Panu Matilainen:

> On 2/28/22 16:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 01:46:38PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm writing a simple provides generator.  The documentation is a bit
>>> light on detail:
>>>
>>>    https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/dependency_generators.html
>>>
>>> How do I get the version-release of the package currently being built?
>>> At the moment I can only print simple provides like:
>>>
>>>    Provides: foo
>>>
>>> but I want to include the version of the package being built, eg:
>>>
>>>    Provides: foo = 1.2-3.fc36
>>>
>>> In theory it seems like the environment variables $RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION
>>> and $RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE should be set in the dependency generator,
>>> but I just confirmed they are not set.
>> I dumped out the environment from the dependency generator and the
>> only RPM-specific environment variable is $RPM_BUILD_ROOT.  I could
>> get the version from that, but it would be a bit of a hack.
>
> Name, epoch, version and release are available as macros in the .attr
> file so you can pass what you need from there, eg to pass version and 
> release as arguments to the provides generator, you can do:
>
> %__my_provides /path/to/my/depgen %{version} %{release}
>
> This seems to be missing in the docs, will fix.

Please also document the uppercase variants (issue 1736).  Thanks. 8-)

Florian
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