Interaction of %_sourcedir and %version

["Kenneth Porter" <shiva well com>]

I just tried to build rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.src.rpm from the RH6.2 updates,
and ran into a problem. My .rpmmacros defines %_sourcedir:

%_sourcedir %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}

Installing the source package puts the tarball in the correct
subdirectory of SOURCES.

rpm.spec specifies the popt subpackage to have "Version: 1.5". When
%prep occurs just after this, popt's version number is stuffed into the
%_sourcedir path, and rpm fails to find the tarball in
SOURCES/rpm-1.5-9.6x.

Temporarily I can remove %version and %release from my %_sourcedir, but
what's the Right Way to handle this? For example, is there a way to
force the macro definition in .rpmmacros to expand once there to its
final value so it can't be changed later in the spec file?

Ken
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