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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros</H1>
<B>Olivier Thauvin</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros">nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org
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<I>Mon Jul 30 17:14:59 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>* Christiaan Welvaart (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cjw at daneel.dyndns.org</A>) wrote:
><i> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> For years, we patch our rpm in order to support for /etc/rpm/macros.d
</I>>><i> (very old compat with rpm-4.4).
</I>>><i> Upstream refused to merge it as "/etc/rpm/ is a "macros.d" style
</I>>><i> directory already, except in name".
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I would like to drop that patch from rpm (one less to maintain).
</I>>><i> That means basically renaming files:
</I>>><i> /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I think you meant:
</I>><i> /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros.foobar
</I>><i>
</I>><i> (/etc/rpm/macros is a file)
</I>
I did this patch because /etc/rpm/macros.* will included
macros.*.rpmsave/.rpmnew and other vim backup. And it's exactly the case
on my own laptop (installed as Mageia):
$ ls /etc/rpm
macros macros.d/ macros.fjava macros.jpackage macros.rpmnew
Notice the macros.rpmnew !
Upstream just sucks to not see this issue, even jbj has admit the
problem.
This patch is not the most problematic in rpm as it's just a line in the
configuration.
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Olivier Thauvin
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