RPM building section of RHL's developer guide

[Michael Schwendt]

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On 28 Jul 2003 23:21:20 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> "Doesn't work" == "The package cannot be built".  And with this
> definition, it turns out that I do remember correctly; it "doesn't work"
> with 4.2.  Nor does it with 4.2.1.  See the attached specfile, here are
> some test results with it:
> 
> rpm-4.2-1 on Shrike:
> 
>   $ rpmbuild -bb foo.spec
>   error: line 8: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': Requires:       %{epoch}:1-1.0
> 
> rpm-4.2.1-0.11 on Severn:
> 
>   $ rpmbuild -bb foo.spec
>   error: line 8: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': Requires:       %{epoch}:1-1.0
> 
> If "no Epoch" == "Epoch: 0" in 4.2.1, why the error?  It is *not* a
> matter of style; if I add the explicit "Epoch: 0" in the attached
> foo.spec, the rpmbuild completes with both versions.

Package name is missing in here:

  Requires:       %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}

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