[Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [189967] - version upgrade

Thu Jan 5 21:14:02 CET 2012

2012/1/5 Matteo <pasotti.matteo at gmail.com>:
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+> Il 03/01/2012 17:18, Jani Välimaa ha scritto:
+>> 2012/1/3  <root at mageia.org>:
+>>> Revision 189967 Author matteo Date 2012-01-03 16:46:56 +0100 (Tue, 03 Jan
+>>> 2012)
+>>>
+>>> Log Message
+>>>
+>>> - version upgrade
+>>> - used macros instead of command names
+>>>
+>>
+>> I think this is pretty much opposite what everyone else is doing. IMHO
+>> this also makes .spec harder to read.
+> Hi Jani,
+> I'm not able to find references on our wiki that say macros (like
+> %__install or %__rm) are deprecated, can You point me in the right
+> direction, please?
+>
+> IMHO the spec file is as readable as the others.
+
+I'm not sure what our wiki says about this, but in majority of .specs
+I've seen in these couple of years I've been a packager, macros aren't
+used for install, mkdir or cp.
+
+This was also discussed a few months ago [1], but no decisions was made.
+
+There was link to Fedora wiki [2] about macros in the previous
+discussion. In short, Fedora wiki basically says that macros shouldn't
+be used for system executables. Maybe this should be also stated in
+our wiki?!
+
+[1] https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-August/007400.html
+[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Macros
+