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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] tools/mkrpm: improve version.release
	handling
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:05:04 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 23, George Dunlap wrote:

> I'm not really happy with having the massive number show up
> automatically when anyone makes an rpm.  What would you think about
> adding a variable where you could set this as part of the build process?
>  e.g.,
>   XEN_RPM_RELEASE="$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)" make rpmball

This may work as well for me. mkrpm handles PKG_SUFFIX already. So
PKG_RELEASE or RPM_RELEASE would be a suitable variable name.
I will try this suggestion.

Olaf