On Wednesday 28 March 2007 19:34:05 Jesse Keating wrote:
I propose we ship these macros in something like redhat-rpm-config for each release, so that when somebody is rebuilding a package on their system, the macros are defined correctly for whatever release they are running. If they are rebuilding for another release/distribution, they really should be using mock, and having redhat-rpm-config define the right things within their mock chroot.
After reading the feedback, I think we're all on the same page. I've asked the redhat-rpm-config maintainer that these macros be added into the redhat-rpm-config package so that they will be available on the installed system.
For devel that means:
%fedora 7 %dist fc7 %fc7 1
will all be defined.
The only "missing" macro at this point would be %__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
however this would bring in 48+megs of deps to redhat-rpm-config that I'm not comfortable with. This macro can be defined within a mock config or a buildsystem config, perhaps not something we need by default on end user's systems.