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

Mon Jul 30 18:39:03 CEST 2012

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
+
+> * nicolas vigier (boklm at mars-attacks.org) wrote:
+> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> > 
+> > > Hi
+> > > 
+> > > 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".
+> > 
+> > In a previous mail Colin was suggesting moving all macro files to
+> > /usr/lib/rpm/ instead of /etc/rpm :
+> > http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017654.html
+> > 
+> > I think shipping macro files somewhere in /usr/lib/rpm with users using
+> > files in /etc/rpm to overwrite macros would be nice. Unfortunately this
+> > probably requires an other patch to rpm.
+> > 
+> > Maybe a patch to read /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/macros.* could be accepted
+> > upstream ?
+> 
+> Ask for /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/*.macros instead !
+
+*.macros would be better than macros.*, but macros.* is more consistent
+with what is already done in /etc/rpm.
+
+In /usr/lib/rpm/* we don't have the problem with *.rpmnew files because
+we don't have to flag them as configuration, as people are not supposed
+to edit them.
+
+