Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

[Thomas Goirand]

Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr> writes: then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | cut -d'-' -f1` MY_DEB_REL=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | cut -d'-' -f2` MY_PKGNAME=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d' ' -f1` dpkg-parsechangelog makes this somewhat easier and more robust. Yes, but I'm using this in both deb and rpm building, and of course, dpkg-parsechangelog is not available in RPM based distros. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bdd251e.2030...@goirand.fr