Rpmbuild SPEC file - variable declaration

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Sep 13 12:16:25 UTC 2015


arnaud gaboury wrote:

> When declaring a variable value,  I wonder if the any difference/best
> practice between these methods:
> 
> export VAR=MyValue
> %{define} VAR MyValue
> %{global} VAR MyValue

best practice is to use global, it is explicitly mentioned here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define

-- rex



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