Bug 4361

Summary: rpm unconditionaly strips last character of $HOME/.rpmmacros
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: luc.maisonobe
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description luc.maisonobe 1999-08-05 06:41:41 UTC
If the last line of a $HOME/.rpmmacros does not ends with \n
the last character of the line is stripped off.

I have seen the problem on both rpm-3.01 and rpm-3.02.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-16 18:58:59 UTC
Fixed in cvs (and rpm-3.0.3-0.15).