[Fedora-packaging] Expanding RPM macros

[Tom Hughes]

On 02/11/14 19:33, Peter Lemenkov wrote:

> Also I wonder why even rpmbuild -bs performs macro expansion? I
> thought it should just pack spec-file and sources/patches together.

Well the source file names often include macros like %version so it will 
have to expand macros in order to find out what source files to include 
in the archive.

Tom

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