Packages installing files to /etc/rpm

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Jan 31 20:23:51 UTC 2014


A number of packages install files to /etc/rpm in Rawhide; the proper
place for macros.* is /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d for rpm >= 4.11. And no
matter what the location, these files should not be marked as %config.

Specfiles not targeting EL < 7 can simply replace %{_sysconfdir}/rpm
with %{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d and ones that wish to stay compatible
with EL5 and 6 can do something like this to find the proper dir:

%global macrosdir %(d=%{_rpmconfigdir}/macros.d; [ -d $d ] ||
d=%{_sysconfdir}/rpm; echo $d)

List of affected packages follows (maintainer package comaintainers):

bkabrda python3 amcnabb,bkabrda,mstuchli,tomspur
bkabrda python bkabrda,dmalcolm,ivazquez,jsteffan,mstuchli,tomspur,tradej
cicku ldc bioinfornatics
deji mpich (none)
dledford openmpi dajt,deji,orion
epienbro mingw-filesystem ivanromanov,kalev,rjones
erikos sugar-toolkit erikos,pbrobinson,sdz,tomeu
erikos sugar-toolkit-gtk3 dsd,pbrobinson
jakub prelink mjw
jcapik octave alexlan,fkluknav,jussilehtola,mmahut,orion,rakesh
jjames ffcall salimma
jjames gap (none)
jjames xemacs stevetraylen
jnovy texlive pertusus,than
jorton httpd hubbitus,jkaluza
jorton php-pear remi,timj
jorton php remi
jplesnik perl corsepiu,cweyl,iarnell,jplesnik,kasal,perl-sig,ppisar,psabata,spot
jussilehtola libint (none)
jzeleny scl-utils bkabrda,jzeleny
kanarip ruby bkabrda,jstribny,kanarip,mmorsi,mtasaka,skottler,tagoh,vondruch
kanarip rubygems kanarip,mtasaka,skottler,stahnma,vondruch
kwizart color-filesystem rhughes
limb drupal7 asrob,pfrields,siwinski
mmorsi jruby bkabrda,goldmann,vondruch
mstuchli pypy tomspur
msuchy rhn-client-tools mzazrive
nim fontpackages fonts-sig,frixxon,tagoh
orion hdf5 davidcl,pertusus
patches nodejs-packaging humaton,jamielinux,mrunge,sgallagh
patches nodejs-tap jamielinux
peter erlang-rpm-macros erlang-sig
petersen ghc-rpm-macros haskell-sig,petersen
phracek emacs jgu,phracek
pjones pesign (none)
pmatilai redhat-rpm-config jcm,pmatilai
ppisar perl-srpm-macros mmaslano,perl-sig
rdieter ggz-base-libs (none)
rdieter polkit-qt mbriza,rnovacek,than
remi php-horde-Horde-Role nb
rmattes ros-release (none)
rombobeorn fedora-gnat-project-common (none)
rstrode GConf2 walters
s4504kr blender fcami,hobbes1069,kwizart,roma
s4504kr gnustep-make s4504kr,salimma
smani keyrings-filesystem (none)
sochotni javapackages-tools java-sig,mizdebsk,msimacek,msrb
spot generic-release bruno
spot R salimma
than sip kkofler,ltinkl,rdieter
twaugh cups jpopelka


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