[Mageia-dev] rpm lies to bcond_with{out} usage

Thu Apr 12 06:12:51 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+In /usr/lib/rpm/macros it does say:
+
+# Handle conditional builds. %bcond_with is for case when feature is
+# default off and needs to be activated with --with ... command line
+# switch. %bcond_without is for the dual case.
+#
+# %bcond_with foo defines symbol with_foo if --with foo was specified on
+# command line.
+# %bcond_without foo defines symbol with_foo if --without foo was *not*
+# specified on command line.
+#
+# For example (spec file):
+#
+# (at the beginning)
+# %bcond_with extra_fonts
+# %bcond_without static
+# (and later)
+# %if %{with extra_fonts}
+# ...
+# %else
+# ...
+# %endif
+# %if ! %{with static}
+# ...
+# %endif
+# %ifdef %{with static}
+# ...
+# %endif
+
+But seams this is NO longer true, i have add in a spec "%bcond_with foo"
+
+so if i want to deny it (following the explained usage) i would have
+to do:  %if ! %{with foo}
+
+but seams its not denying, rpm is lying!
+
+So far the only way i found to deny and that does in fact deny is to
+use: %if %{!with foo}
+
+Surprised? Well so am i!
+
+Seams that rpm behaviour goes very confusing,  since also "rpmquery"
+no longer does what is expected i.e. "rpmquery -i foo" doesn not show
+any info about the package.
+
+Can this be fixed with a patch?
+Maybe would be better for the rpm maintainer report these problems upstream?
+