_rpmversion in rpm 5.4.13

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Mon Sep 23 23:57:54 CEST 2013



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> On Sep 23, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/09/13 00:41, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> >On Sep 23, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Jakub Bogusz<qboosh at pld-linux.org>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> >$ grep _rpmversion -r/usr/lib/rpm/
>>> >/usr/lib/rpm/macros:%_rpmversion                3.0 (Th)
>>> >
>>> >Is it what it's expected to be?
>> Yes. LSB mandated 3.0 in all packages, preventing any rational
>> usage of versioning.
> jbj, you are getting old?,

No more old than you are stoopid.

There's very little semantic content
in RPM versioning.

Feel free to put in any value you
choose: RPM itself does not use
version for anything useful.

I'd suggest that PLD do the same.

73 de Jeff

> %_rpmversion has always been @VERSION@ from autofuu.
> 
> rpm-5.4.13/macros/macros.in:20:%_rpmversion          @VERSION@
> 
> [cut]
> 
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> glen
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