"Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > At the risk of asking the obvious, why does this fail: > %define nunitver %(gacutil -l nunit.core | tail -n 2 | grep nunit.core > | cut -d "=" -f 2 | cut -d "," -f 1) > Requires: mono(nunit.core) = %{nunitver} I'm hardly an expert, but it seems like this is assuming that gacutil will be installed in *any* context where the specfile is examined, in particular before any of the specfile's Requires: or BuildRequires: could be enforced. (Likewise for tail, grep, and cut, but those at least have some small prayer of being there in the environment of non-core packages.) You can get away with this kind of thing in some cases where the macro's value doesn't really matter before the package is built and/or installed (I have some packages that do similar things and seem to work). But I'm thinking a Requires: cannot qualify for that, since it's likely to be evaluated long before either the package or its dependencies have been installed. regards, tom lane -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging