On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:21 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I just built and make tested the beta of SA 3.3 with good success and
> wanted to build the rpm from it now. I get an error:
> error: line 38: Illegal char '-' in version: Version: 3.3.0-beta1
>
> Seems that Version: %{version} doesn't like hyphens.
or alpha characters of any sort.
> What's the best way to overcome this? Change to _ for instance?
No, you have to convince it that everything is numeric. Here's what I
did in a similar situation:
%define beta p1
Summary: The ISC DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
server/relay
agent/client
Name: dhcp
Epoch: 2
Version: 3.1.2
Release: %mkrel 1
License: Distributable
Group: System/Servers
URL: http://www.isc.org/dhcp.html
Source0: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}%{beta}.tar.gz
Source1:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}%{beta}.tar.gz.asc
>
> Kai
>
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