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<H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 31 18:58:21 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 30/07/12 17:39 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
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</I>>><i> * nicolas vigier (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>) wrote:
</I>>>><i> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
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</I>>>>><i> Hi
</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> In a previous mail Colin was suggesting moving all macro files to
</I>>>><i> /usr/lib/rpm/ instead of /etc/rpm :
</I>>>><i> <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017654.html">http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-July/017654.html</A>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I think shipping macro files somewhere in /usr/lib/rpm with users using
</I>>>><i> files in /etc/rpm to overwrite macros would be nice. Unfortunately this
</I>>>><i> probably requires an other patch to rpm.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Maybe a patch to read /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/macros.* could be accepted
</I>>>><i> upstream ?
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Ask for /usr/lib/rpm/mageia/*.macros instead !
</I>><i>
</I>><i> *.macros would be better than macros.*, but macros.* is more consistent
</I>><i> with what is already done in /etc/rpm.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In /usr/lib/rpm/* we don't have the problem with *.rpmnew files because
</I>><i> we don't have to flag them as configuration, as people are not supposed
</I>><i> to edit them.
</I>
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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