[Fedora-packaging] Conditional comparision doesn't work

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:01:20 +0200, Christoph wrote:

> I have a spec with
> 
>         %global panelversion 4.8.3
> or 
>         %global panelversion %(rpm -q --qf='%{VERSION}' xfce4-panel)
> 
> As expected this returns "4.8.3" and
> 
>         Requires: xfce4-panel >= %{panelversion}
> 
> works fine. However 
> 
>         %if 0%{?panelversion} >= 4.7
>         %patch3 -p1
>         %endif
> 
> does not but returns:
> 
> Error: xfce4-cellmodem-plugin.spec:54: parseExpressionBoolean returns -1
> 
> Do I miss something obvious?

Neither 04.8.3 nor 4.7 can be converted into an integer as expected by
the >= comparison. For values like that, you would need to use string
comparison.