Re: 'Requires' directive in spec file ignored?

Brian Reichert <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:43:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:00:11PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> The spec file you posted has this:
> 
> Summary: mDNSResponder
> Name: mDNSResponder
> Version: %{version}
> Release: %{release}
> 
> The "Version: %{version}" causes a macro recursion because
> after Version: is parsed, one ends up defining version to itself.
> 
> Basically same as doing
>     %define version %{version}
> which can never be evaluated.

I elected to hard-code the version info, to test your hypothesis, but the
oucome was the same. :/

> 73 de Jeff

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