On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16.58.10 WEST Zdenek Dohnal wrote:

> > Isn't this because "Version" is the name of a tag? Just like Name and

> > Release. And Tag names are not case-sensitive, so you could write this

> > in your spec file:

> >

> > VERSION: 12.34

> >

> > Reusing those for your own macros seems like a very bad idea and bound

> > to lead to confusion. Does %version refer to the VERSION tag? Or does

> > %VERSION refer to that?

>

> %{VERSION} contains %{version}-%{prever}. AFAIK macro %{version}

> contains value for Version: tag, so I defined other macro %{VERSION}.

> And I thought macros are case sensitive. I worked fine this way before.

Possibly you have considered this before.

For the above example why not to define version in the spec file as

Version: 12.34{?prever:-%{prever}}

If the %{prever} is defined is adds -%{prever} to the version else it does nothing.

Regards,

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José Abílio