[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Spec File Syntax

Wed Jan 19 13:48:24 CET 2011

On 17 January 2011 23:53, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> Am 15.01.2011 11:08, schrieb Remy CLOUARD:
+>>
+>> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax
+>>
+>> Please review this page as it’s one of the most important one for the
+>> beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be
+>> imported).
+>
+> I have one comment, or more of a question: Why is it that some time ago
+> there used to be this syntax as de-facto standard:
+>
+> %define name
+> Name: %name
+>
+> Never understood this, so i went with what seems the new standard,
+> which saves you at least 3 lines per spec and improving readability.
+>
+> So anyone can enlighten me why name, release and version had %defines?
+>
+
+Just more visibility, ideally it comes down to that package
+maintainer's preference.
+
+(One point to note, if you see it in an unmaintained package go ahead
+and change it if you want; however if you see it in the spec of
+maintained package, ask the maintainer first, a nicety but still..
+:)).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+