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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:

> Russ Allbery wrote:
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>     Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:
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>         then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like:
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>         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`
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>     dpkg-parsechangelog makes this somewhat easier and more robust.
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> Yes, but I'm using this in both deb and rpm building, and of course,
> dpkg-parsechangelog is not available in RPM based distros.
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> Thomas

Then change that. :)

We have rpm in Debian. Let them have dpkg.

MfG
        Goswin