Macros in Source fields (was: Re: Prelink success story :))

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> Coupled with Ville's comment that package QA people really
>> should be checking out web pages and so forth to make sure they have
>> a canonical source rather than cut 'n paste, macros in Source: make more
>> and more sense to me.  (Although I'll definitely miss cut and paste when
>> I'm QA'ing an update package and I already checked out the canonicalness
>> in the previous version.)
>
>Macros in URLs simply don't work. If you want macros in Source tags,
>cut off everything up to the file name like
>
>  Source0: %name-%version.tar.gz

Macros work fine for me in Source tags, with URLs and without.  
See the xchat spec file for an example.

pts/34 mharris at porkchop:~/rpmbuild/rpms/xchat$ grep Source xchat.spec
Source:    http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.0/xchat-%{version}.tar.bz2



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