Description of problem: It's not such a big problem, but for fluent flow during our building process it's useful. #grep ^Release: httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.2.src.rpm.spec Release: 11%{dist}.2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.2.src.rpm.spec httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.1.src.rpm.spec How reproducible: grep ^Release: httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.{1,2}.src.rpm.spec Actual results: 11%{dist}.2 Expected results: 11%{?dist}.2