Bug 204608

Summary:	anaconda set %_transaction_color in /etc/rpm/macros
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
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Description Axel Thimm 2006-08-30 12:20:11 UTC

Currently on multilib systems anaconda writes a %_transaction_color entry into
the unowned /etc/rpm/macros file.

It looks like rpm for some ppc64/ia64a archs wasn't defaulting to 3, for x86_64
I checked that for all multilib releases (RHEL3/4 and FC2-6) the setting
%_transaction_color to 3, so it's doing the right thing w/o any entry in
/etc/rpm/macros.

If this has been fixed in ppc64's rpm could this entry be left off? Ideally
/etc/rpm/macros should be used only by users to modify rpm behaviour, it can
happen (there are a couple of bug reports in here), that this entry gets nuked,
especially since this currently /etc/rpm/macros is unowned (see also bug
#204606). Also if this entry is important many buildroot constructing systems
are missing this, so it should move from anaconda to rpm.

I suggest to

o either not set anything in /etc/rpm/macros if it is indeed redundand by now,
o or, if it is needed in some scenarios to place it into some other
  /etc/rpm/macros.* file and make that owned by some prominent package like rpm
  itself.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-06 05:38:44 UTC

Unfortunately, this can't be not written out as on ppc you definitely don't get
the right thing (since you're running a ppc32 rpm instead of ppc64, chaos then
ensues).  There's a really old bug against rpm about this.

We could change it to /etc/rpm/macros.somethingelse, though I guess

Comment 2 Paul Nasrat 2007-05-17 13:29:41 UTC

We also need to set color preference now for ppc64 so we need to write out the
macros file