[Fedora-packaging] Mention %{_sharedstatedir} difference on RPMMacros for EPEL

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:26:12 +0200 (EET)
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:58:42PM -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> >> 2010/2/14 Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> >>> %{buildroot} probably fits best in the "Other macros" section,
> >>> because it is a macro to be used inside the spec. Bug the
> >>> %{_buildrootdir} macros like the other RPM directory macros is
> >>> afaik supposed to be used only with rpmbuild --define to change
> >>> the behaviour of rpmbuild.
> >>
> >> Was typing the nonexistent %{_buildroot} instead of %{buildroot} a
> >> typo?
> >
> > Yes, I just fixed this.
> >
> >> On a somewhat related note, some directory macros (e.g.,
> >> %_keyringpath) contain trailing slashes, while others don't.  Does
> >> this matter enough to be worth addressing?
> >
> > %_keyringpath is not mentioned at all and according to 'rpm
> > --showrc  | %grep "/$"' it is the only macro with a trailing slash.
> > So maybe this can just be changed. But it also does not hurt that
> > much, because afaik a double slash in a path will be handled like a
> > single slash.
> 
> %_keyringpath is nothing packagers should be concerned with. Neither
> is %_buildrootdir. These are rpm internals, unfortunately the macro
> namespace is well and thoroughly mixed up wrt what "internal" and
> whats not.

Another couple of macros that are occasionally useful in specs are
%{_builddir} and %{buildsubdir} - could they be added too?

Paul.