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

Mon Jul 30 18:22:02 CEST 2012

* Olivier Blin (mageia at blino.org) wrote:
+> Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> writes:
+> 
+> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:47:54PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> >> 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
+> > [..]
+> >> WDYT?
+> >
+> > I thought latest idea that /etc is solely for the sysadmin, so shouldn't
+> > above be:
+> >   /usr/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
+> 
+> Right, these macros are not supposed to be edited by the sysadmin, we
+> could even use /usr/lib/rpm/macros.<foo>
+> (we already use this for perl, php, python, systemd)
+
+But I never edited my /etc/rpm/macros. It has been modified by installer
+long time ago and the /etc/rpm/macros.rpmnew has been created by an
+update of rpm.
+
+Is the installer supposed to modify /etc/rpm/macros ?...
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
+-------------- next part --------------
+A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
+Name: not available
+Type: application/pgp-signature
+Size: 197 bytes
+Desc: not available
+URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120730/70b20a74/attachment.asc>
+