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

Mon Jul 30 18:55:01 CEST 2012

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
+
+> * 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 ?...
+
+Yes, the install (and maybe draklocale) modify /etc/rpm/macros :
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/lang.pm?revision=4265&view=markup#l1100
+
+Maybe this should be changed to modify/create /etc/rpm/macros.install_langs
+instead ?
+
+We can also remove /etc/rpm/macros from rpm package.
+
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