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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros">boklm at mars-attacks.org
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<I>Mon Jul 30 18:21:06 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Olivier Blin wrote:
><i> Olav Vitters <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">olav at vitters.nl</A>> writes:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:47:54PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</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> >> WDYT?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I thought latest idea that /etc is solely for the sysadmin, so shouldn't
</I>><i> > above be:
</I>><i> > /usr/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Right, these macros are not supposed to be edited by the sysadmin, we
</I>><i> could even use /usr/lib/rpm/macros.<foo>
</I>><i> (we already use this for perl, php, python, systemd)
</I>
Actually rpm provide some macro file in /usr/lib/rpm/macros.<foo>, but
they need to be included manually from spec file. They start with a
comment like this :
# To make use of these macros insert the following line into your spec
# file:
# %include %{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.perl
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