On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> -Source: openmpi-%{version}.tar.$EXTENSION
> +Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.$EXTENSION
The spec file parser defines some of these variables by default. F.e.
after encountering at the top of the file:
Name: fftw
Version: 2.1.5
Release: 5.bc
something like %{name}-%{version}-%{release} will be expanded to
fftw-2.1.5-5.bc. So there is no need to define any of these
variables... The suggestion for improvement here is only cosmetic, it
looks nicer to not have hardcoded names all over the spec file. This
makes it easier to later change the name of the package, f.e. to allow
installing several packages at the same time by simply changing:
Name: fftw2
to allow for the package called 'fftw' to track the 3.x versions. This
was done previously by Red Hat f.e. for their python packages.
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