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

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Christiaan Welvaart (cjw at daneel.dyndns.org) wrote:
> 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)

I did this patch because /etc/rpm/macros.* will included
macros.*.rpmsave/.rpmnew and other vim backup. And it's exactly the case
on my own laptop (installed as Mageia):

$  ls /etc/rpm
macros  macros.d/  macros.fjava  macros.jpackage  macros.rpmnew

Notice the macros.rpmnew !

Upstream just sucks to not see this issue, even jbj has admit the
problem.

This patch is not the most problematic in rpm as it's just a line in the
configuration.

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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