Re: Dynamic version & release numbers

["James Olin Oden" <james oden gmail com>]

On 3/5/06, Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I set the version & release number dynamically in a spec file?
> Currently, I do that in the following way:
>
> %define version 3
> %define release 456
>
> Version : %{version}
> Release : %{release}
>
> I'd like to do something like:
>
> version = grep a value from some file
> release = grep a value from some file
>
So use %() which is lick `` in the shell, as in:

   Version: %(grep version: some_file|cut -d: -f2)

Cheers...james