[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros

Christiaan Welvaart cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Mon Jul 30 17:00:33 CEST 2012


On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> For years, we patch our rpm in order to support for /etc/rpm/macros.d
> (very old compat with rpm-4.4).
> Upstream refused to merge it as "/etc/rpm/ is a "macros.d" style
> directory already, except in name".
>
> I would like to drop that patch from rpm (one less to maintain).
> That means basically renaming files:
>  /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros/macros.foobar

I think you meant:
    /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros.foobar

(/etc/rpm/macros is a file)


     Christiaan


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