Bug 1265021

Summary: RFE: Add %autosetup macro
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Karel Srot <ksrot>
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Version: 6.7CC: j, lkardos, tlavigne
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Description Orion Poplawski 2015-09-21 22:14:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

Any chance the %autosetup macro could be added to the EL6 rpm?  Or should EPEL just add it somewhere else?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.8.0-47.el6
Comment 2 Ľuboš Kardoš 2015-12-01 13:43:39 UTC 
Not sure if we want to backport %autosetup to rhel6 rpm. But %autosetup is not hardcoded in rpm, it is implemented by macros. That means you can easily add %autosetup to your system by adding the content of the attached file into your ~/.rpmmacros or create some file in /etc/rpm and put the content there (then it will be available for all users).

Is that acceptable solution for you?
Comment 3 Ľuboš Kardoš 2015-12-01 13:44:47 UTC 
Created attachment 1100923 [details]
autosetup_macros extracted from /usr/lib/rpm/macros
Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2015-12-01 15:47:31 UTC 
The goal is to allow Fedora/EPEL rpms to share the same spec file.  If it's not going to be added to RHEL's rpm macros, we can add it to epel-release or similar.
Comment 5 Ľuboš Kardoš 2016-01-12 10:03:29 UTC 
We want to have macros like this in one place. Devel ack for adding autosetup macros into rpm package.
Comment 9 Jason Tibbitts 2016-02-20 05:42:37 UTC 
I was just CC'd on this.  epel-rpm-macros has autosetup currently, but if it's going into some base RHEL release then we can remove it.  The question is, when should this happen?
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-11 00:54:02 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0936.html