Change name of output file

[John Wieland]

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I need to have the package name conform
to an office standard naming convention and we don't specify our
architecture as just x86_64, it needs to specify linux_x64_lsb30 as we
release the same library (but packaged and built differently) on a number of
different platforms.

But I'll point this out.

Cheers,
John

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Wieland wrote:
>
>  Hi again,
>>
>> I need to specify the name of the output file being generated by
>> rpmbuild. How would I go about doing that?
>>
>
> As already pointed out, you can change it by overriding the
> %_build_name_fmt macro defaults. But you should think twice before changing
> it - the file name has no relevance to rpm, a package is registered in the
> rpmdb by its contents, not by filename. Users generally expect the de-facto
> <name>-<version>-<release>.<arch>.rpm format and will only be annoyed if
> they install a file named "mypackage.rpm" and then discover the package is
> known as "FooBiz" in the rpmdb.
>
>        - Panu -
>
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