Bug 166401

Summary:	rpmbuild parses tags is spec file strangely
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Vic <rhbugs>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Vic 2005-08-20 14:18:05 UTC

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Description of problem:
I had an old spec file (i.e. it used to work) which mentioned a change to the "%install" section within the %changelog.

Running this through rpmbuild causes the changelog comment to be parsed as the start of the %install section, and the real %install tag is then seen as a second %install section. rpmbuild then complains about this, and doesn't build anything.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-build-4.2.3-13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a comment in %changelog saying something about %install
2. Run rpmbuild on that spec file
3. Watch it fail...
  

Actual Results:  rpmbuild complains & doesn't do anything

Expected Results:  rpmbuild should have built the rpms

Additional info:

Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2005-08-20 14:46:13 UTC

Macros get expanded everywhere use %%install to escape in changelog, etc

What version of rpm was this known to work with.

Comment 2 Vic 2005-08-20 14:50:26 UTC

Sorry, don't know which version. This file has been sat on my machine for quite
some time :-)

I'll use the %% workaround.

Vic.

Comment 3 Paul Nasrat 2005-08-20 15:04:20 UTC

It's been like this for quite some time - eg:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2000-September/msg00209.html

It does bite people when they first hit it but once you know that macros are
expanded everywhere (in comments, changelog, etc) then people don't forget.