Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 18:32 schrieb Daniel Watkins:
> I've never really looked at RPM spec files before, so I am a little
> confused. I (think I) know %{name} refers to the package name (i.e. LyX)
> but can't figure out what directory %{_datadir} referring to. I'd
> appreciate it if someone could give me a shove in the right direction?

%{_datadir} is "/usr/local/share" in the default install. %{name} is "lyx" 
in the default install. If you use a version suffix "-xxx", %{name} is 
"lyx-xxx", and you must give the --with-version-suffix=-xxx argument to 
the configure script.


Georg

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