On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> ehh?
>>
>> Names must not include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-'
>> (unlike version and release tags).
>>
>> That is, version and release are UNLIKE name. name MAY have a
>> hyphen. by inference (and as you have seen), version and
>> release may not.
> How would you handle this case? As per my last email , I used a
> -n in the %setup to cd into the right dir but I am left with improperly
> named and versioned rpms as they don't actually match the source!
A %{dist} tag, or the variations, have a long and muddy
history, not even interesting to the participants of those
wars. My only advice is:
Don't fight city hall here
-- Russ herrold