[Fedora-packaging] Re: Macro question for rpm gurus

[Mike A. Harris]

Gagadget wrote:
> Dear listers,
> 
> BIND has a version numbering system like this : 
> Major.Medium.Minor-Ppatchlevel, with -Ppatchlevel only exists if 
> patchlevel > 0. For instance, the source are named like that :
> 
> bind-9.5.2-P2.tar.gz
> bind-9.6.0-P1.tar.gz
> bind-9.2.9.tar.gz
> 
> I try to define a generic spec file for BIND packaging, here is what I did :
> 
> %define VERSION 9.6.0

This define is redundant and unnecessary.  Just put the version directly 
in the "Version:" tag, and rpm does the right thing.

Version: 9.6.0