Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (145 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed 23 Nov 2011 05:57:33 NZDT +1300, Juergen Weigert wrote:

> The "obvious" reasons are, that 
>  * When building a package, the source server employs a
>    virtual machine, and %() shell expansions are honored.
>  * But when we evaluate BuildRequires, the source server does not employ 
>    a virtual machine, and %() shell expansions are disabled for security 
> reasons.

A perfectly good explanation. Drop it into the OBS manual under
"additional limitations when using the build service".

> This also causes those warnings:
>  Warning: spec file parser line 109: can't expand %(...)

It's not obvious what generates those warnings and why, so I shrugged my
shoulders.

> I'd suggest to put a hardcoded define next to the define of vers
>
> %define vers            4.5.3
> %define vers_2digit     4.5

Adding another manually maintained setting is a possibility. I just
removed the conditional, then it's only wasting some computer's time...

Thanks,

Volker

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