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

Tue Jul 31 18:58:21 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 30/07/12 17:39 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+Yup, I'd be much more interested in this approach. I can't see upstream
+being against such a change. The only issue might be that a file call
+macros.foo in /etc tree might have to totally supersede a file called
+macros.coo in /usr tree (i.e. the one in /usr would not even be read) If
+this was the desired behaviour (and I think it generally should be) then
+the patch would obviously be a bit more complex, but again I don't think
+this is something upstream would be against in principle and I'm sure a
+few of the Redhat guys would agree.
+
+Col
+
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