Bug 1045070
| Summary: | Additional macros directory macro | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Vít Ondruch <vondruch> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 22 | CC: | ffesti, jzeleny, novyjindrich, packaging-team-maint, pmatilai, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-03-20 09:33:47 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Description
Vít Ondruch
2013-12-19 14:45:30 UTC
I never understood what's so hard about writing literal '/usr/lib' in the cases where it is actually hardwired :) but rpm's "lets dump all the weird junk someplace" directory in /usr/lib/rpm can be addressed with %{_rpmconfigdir} in all current Fedora versions.
There's no specific macro for the macro directories though, and I'm not really convinced that adding yet more macros would make the situation somehow better as there are two different places with different alleged semantics (/etc is supposed to be per-host configuration, /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d is for distro-wide non-configuration) so we'd need two different "macro dir" macros.
I already stated the benefits. One additional benefit is that you as a RPM developer could change the preferred macros directory without need of changing every .spec file around. That helps to keep backward compatibility without too much pain. It would be useful also for UsrMove scenarios etc. But thanks for the %{_rpmconfigdir}, this is helpful.
For packaging and for all purposes I ever wanted some additional macros, I always cared just about /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d. /etc might be useful for system administrator, but not for typical package IMO.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle. Changing version to '22'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22 Looks like this is solved well enough by the updated packager documentation and there is no real need for yet another macro. Closing. |