On 08/18/2011 12:57 PM, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
Tom Callaway:
%namev%version
Is the macro %namev? %name? %na?
Michael Schwendt:
RPM may accept it, but it cannot always parse it correctly either:
echo "a=b"> %nameconfig.cfg
won't do the right thing even with %name being defined by default.
Are you joking? Or am I missing something? Of course, it means %namev and %nameconfig respectively.
The point is that many specs need something like %{name}v%{version} or %{name}config but NOT %{namev}%{version} or %{nameconfig}. Without brackets, they would be parsed as the latter which would not be the intended result (don't forget many packagers are not programmers by nature).
I would support explicitly making usage of brackets on macros a SHOULD item for packaging guidelines/reviews.