RPM building section of RHL's developer guide

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:28, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > 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}

*blush*  Note to self: no late-at-night posts.

Anyway, when the spec is fixed, it builds w/ rpm 4.2 and 4.2.1 but
results in "foo = %{epoch}:1-1.0" dependency (not 0:1-1.0) to the main
package in -devel with both.

Jeff's "%{name} = %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}" 'workaround' works.

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