Re: [Cooker] rpm and macros.* files

[Guillaume Rousse]

Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> rpm 4.4 is able to find macros file using a glob (* joker).
> 
> By default rpm use '/etc/rpm/macros.*' and currently in rpm-mandriva-setup I 
> keep this setting. But this method is bad because it will take into account 
> *.rpm{new,save}, which we don't want. So I plan to remove this behaviour and 
> only keep /etc/rpm/macros and /etc/rpm/macros.cdb.
> 
> rpm-mandriva-setup is currently having '/etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros'.
> I provide 2 macros to easilly produce macros filename:
> 
> %_sys_macros_dir /etc/rpm/macros.d
> %build_sysmacrospath() %{_sys_macros_dir}/%{?1:%{1}}%{?!1:%{name}}.macros
> 
> The first one is only the path, the second produce the full filename unsing 
> %name if no argument is given.
> 
> [olivier@andromede ~]$ rpm --eval "%build_sysmacrospath foo"
> /etc/rpm/macros.d/foo.macros
what's the point of this second one ? just to append a standard
extension and prepend another macro as path ? Seems overkill for me...

> Do you have comment about this ?
> Does /etc/rpm/*.macros prefered ?
> Do you have better name for these macros ?
> 
> I plan to create another macros to dump a macros an its content, something 
> like:
> %dump %%_bindir
> to produce:
> %_bindir /usr/bin
> 
> This is intent to genrate macros file from spec.
So %dump %%macro would just correspond to %%macro %macro ? I'm not
convinced either...
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