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Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?



Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:

> then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like:

> MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 |
> cut -d'-' -f1`
> MY_DEB_REL=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 |
> cut -d'-' -f2`
> MY_PKGNAME=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d' ' -f1`

dpkg-parsechangelog makes this somewhat easier and more robust.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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