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<H1>[Mageia-dev] %{_unitdir} after /usr move</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 24 17:29:38 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 24/07/12 15:35 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 24/07/12 15:11 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>>><i> $ rpm -E '%{_unitdir}'
</I>>>><i> /lib/systemd/system
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> This should show:
</I>>>><i> /usr/lib/systemd/system
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I see that it is defined in two places:
</I>>>><i> 1. /etc/rpm/macros.d/20build.macros: %_unitdir /lib/systemd/system
</I>>>><i> 2. /usr/lib/rpm/macros.systemd: %_unitdir /usr/lib/systemd/system
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> The latter obviously provides the right setting. But I guess due to
</I>>>><i> ordering and so on it picks up the setting from 20build.macros.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> This is preventing me to package NetworkManager properly (I prefer
</I>>>><i> relying on %{_unitdir} to give me the location, so the spec still works
</I>>>><i> on Mageia 2).
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Could someone fix this?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Yeah this was on my to-fix list.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> As far as I'm aware the file in /usr/lib/rpm/macros.systemd will not be
</I>>><i> looked at at all anyway as it's not in any kind of magical .d folder.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I would like to see the following changes:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> 1) We define a /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/ folder.
</I>>><i> 2) Any packages shipping file in the /etc/ folder should change and use
</I>>><i> /usr/lib instead (/etc should be for admin overrides, NOT for general
</I>>><i> packaging).
</I>>><i> 3) We include the systemd macos in the /usr/lib/rpm/macos.d/ folder.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This looks like a good idea.
</I>
Cool.
>><i> 4) Any files shipping systemd units require systemd-devel to ensure they
</I>>><i> have the macro.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> While steps 1-3 are probably OK (just need work) I'm not sure if
</I>>><i> requiring systemd-devel is overkill when all they need is a small part
</I>>><i> of it. I could potentially create a systemd-unit-devel package which
</I>>><i> only contained the neccesary stuff which would be lighter on the
</I>>><i> requirements front but I'm also against too much fragmentation here, so
</I>>><i> I'd be tempted to just say "require systemd-devel" and sod the
</I>>><i> not-strictly-necessary stuff it might end up pulling in.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Are you talking about buildrequires ?
</I>
Yeah, sorry, this was all on the BuildRequires front. Like I said, I'm
fairly tempted to just make such packages BuildRequire systemd-devel and
forget about it rather than spend time splitting things up just to save
a few seconds on the build time.
Col
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