On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Ingo Schaefer <ingo AT ingo-schaefer DOT de> 
wrote:
> You should in this case also define "disttag" and "distver" to some kind
> of default value, because if not set the RPM naming will be some kind of
> weird. (As far as I can understand the spec file some lines below.

The idea is to die not-so-gracefully in this situation, for the reason
you describe.  Dan just committed some updated code to accomplish just
this; see
  
http://github.com/nikolasco/amanda/blob/3b03d785afee2379b55d7985e204b00da3c21af1/packaging/rpm/amanda.spec#L146

If you know a better way to cause RPM parsing to abort, let us know.

Dustin

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