On Mar 31, 2005 17:46:58 -0700, Brian Auld wrote:
> I'm about to pull some hair out here. I put a simple spec file
together
> so I could continue my trend of managing all software I install on my
> system using rpms. I'm trying to put together the spec file for the
> package ltt-0.9.6.-pre4.tar.bz2 (The linux trace toolkit).
My (ab)normal way of dealing with these has been to put the pre (or beta
or alpha or ...) information in the release field. Some versions of RPM
allow you to do this directly (e.g. Version: 1.2.3 Release:pre4 is less
than Version:1.2.3 Release:1). Others may require that you do some
manipulation such as prefacing it with "0." as is recommended in the
Fedora Package Naming Guidelines. The package name would be either
ltt-0.9.6-pre4 or ltt-0.9.6-0.pre4.
> I keep getting an error "error: line 19: Illegal char '-' in version:
> Version: 0.9.6-pre4" when I run an rpmbuild command on my spec file.
Am
> I missing something obvious here. I can't seem to get version
numbers
> with hyphens to work.
>
> I've tried all sorts of permutations and combinations of separating
the
> %{version} and %{subversion} macros, and no matter what I do, it
fails
> on the '-'. I'd like to keep the versioning consistent with the
source
> package - please HELP!!!
>
>
> My spec file looks something like this:
>
> Summary: LTT trace toolkit user space tools
> #%define version 0.9.6-pre4
> %define version 0.9.6
> %define subversion pre4
> Name: ltt-tools
> Prefix: /usr
> Provides: ltt-tools
>
> Group: Development/Languages
> License: GPL
Change Release to pre4 or 0.pre4.n Where n is the actual build number
> Release: 1
> Source: ltt-%{version}-%{subversion}.tar.bz2
Change Version to just %{version}
> Version: %{version}-%{subversion}
> BuildRoot: /tmp/lttrpm
>
> %description
> ...
Good Luck
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