[Fedora-packaging] Call rpm during rpmbuild

[Rex Dieter]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm right in thinking that it's bad to call rpm from rpmbuild?

Yes.

> but if calling rpm like this is bad, I'm wondering how to fix it.  Best 
> way I can see to do this is to store the name-version-release of the 
> compiler in a special file in the ocaml RPM, something like:
> 
>   /usr/lib64/ocaml/fedora-ocaml-release
> 
> which would contain something like 3.09.0-3 or whatever, then the script 
> can be changed to cat this file.

This is workable, or possibly use pkg-config (as was proposed recently 
with emacs stuff).

-- Rex