GLobal macro %__python_version expands to empty string if puthon is not installed. This causes parse errors in sandman while doing it's pre-commit check on specfiles containing something like: Requires: python >= %__python_version This macro should look like this: %__python_version %((%__python -c 'import sys; print sys.version' 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown") |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1 |cut -d. -f1,2) This will not cause any errors in build process since python-devel package is often BuildRequire'd in such packages.
Applied in upcoming rpm-4.0.4-alt28
