[Fedora-packaging] RPM macros

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 07/10/2012 01:29 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that in revised haskell guidelines [1], there is mentioned the
> ghc-rpm-macros package, which provides macros.ghc file, which in turns
> provides some useful macros for packaging of Haskell packages. In Ruby,
> we provide similar macro files in ruby-devel and rubygems-devel
> subpackages respectively. Perl has their macros directly in the rpm
> package itself.
>
> This seems to be a bit inconsistent to me. So my question is: shouldn't
> we standardize some best practices with regards of RPM macros? For
> example for Ruby, we placed the macros into -devel subpackages, because
> we believe that it is just development dependency. Any opinions?
>
>
> Vit
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-July/008527.html

It depends what you need to do. Part of Perl macros is in a special 
package perl-srpm-macros, which is required by redhat-rpm-config. We 
should have all macros defined in perl-srpm-macros in buildroot 
everytime, which was one of our issues during annual rebuild.

Marcela