On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 06:55 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:53:04 Michael Schwendt wrote:
Adding macro usage without adding the macros to "something like redhat-rpm-config" is not good.
Historically, the plan has always been to add the macros to such a package. Hearing about "resistance" is news to me.
It is already unexpected and inconvenient enough to need "--define fedora 6" or similar when rebuilding some packages.
I see criticism here for how we use the buildsystem, but I don't see an actual opinion as to making these macros work on the installed system.
OK you want some critical remarks:
- in a proper implementation, all "redhat" macros should be encapsulated into "target" files (/usr/lib/rpm/<target>)
- whether the build-sys macros are being merged into redhat-rpm-config doesn't matter much, because redhat-rpm-config already kills rpmbuild "--target"
- All "vendor" macros are potentially harmful (Once they are in, you almost never can get rid of them). The buildsystem macros add further to this pollution.
I assume from your last sentence that you're in favor, but I'd rather not make assumptions.
Ralf