[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros

Mon Jul 30 17:14:59 CEST 2012

* Christiaan Welvaart (cjw at daneel.dyndns.org) wrote:
+> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+>
+>> For years, we patch our rpm in order to support for /etc/rpm/macros.d
+>> (very old compat with rpm-4.4).
+>> Upstream refused to merge it as "/etc/rpm/ is a "macros.d" style
+>> directory already, except in name".
+>>
+>> I would like to drop that patch from rpm (one less to maintain).
+>> That means basically renaming files:
+>>  /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
+>
+> I think you meant:
+>    /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros.foobar
+>
+> (/etc/rpm/macros is a file)
+
+I did this patch because /etc/rpm/macros.* will included
+macros.*.rpmsave/.rpmnew and other vim backup. And it's exactly the case
+on my own laptop (installed as Mageia):
+
+$  ls /etc/rpm
+macros  macros.d/  macros.fjava  macros.jpackage  macros.rpmnew
+
+Notice the macros.rpmnew !
+
+Upstream just sucks to not see this issue, even jbj has admit the
+problem.
+
+This patch is not the most problematic in rpm as it's just a line in the
+configuration.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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