I'm right in thinking that it's bad to call rpm from rpmbuild?
During my find-requires script, I need to get the exact
name-version-release of the ocaml compiler. Obviously the compiler
knows its name & version, but not its release.
At the moment I'm doing:
if [ -n "$emit_compiler_version" ]; then
# Every OCaml program depends on the precise version of the
# compiler which was used to compile it.
rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} = %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' ocaml
fi
but if calling rpm like this is bad, I'm wondering how to fix it. Best
way I can see to do this is to store the name-version-release of the
compiler in a special file in the ocaml RPM, something like:
/usr/lib64/ocaml/fedora-ocaml-release
which would contain something like 3.09.0-3 or whatever, then the script
can be changed to cat this file.
What do people think?
Rich.
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