Re: Change name of output file

[John Wieland <johnny.c.sparkles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I need to have the package name conform to an office standard naming convention and we don't specify our architecture as just x86_64, it needs to specify linux_x64_lsb30 as we release the same library (but packaged and built differently) on a number of different platforms.

But I'll point this out.

Cheers,
John

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Wieland wrote:

Hi again,

I need to specify the name of the output file being generated by
rpmbuild. How would I go about doing that?

As already pointed out, you can change it by overriding the %_build_name_fmt macro defaults. But you should think twice before changing it - the file name has no relevance to rpm, a package is registered in the rpmdb by its contents, not by filename. Users generally expect the de-facto <name>-<version>-<release>.<arch>.rpm format and will only be annoyed if they install a file named "mypackage.rpm" and then discover the package is known as "FooBiz" in the rpmdb.

       - Panu -

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