On 03/20/2018 01:00 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Macros in RPMs are expanded before line continuations, so when we write
>
> %systemd_preun foo \
> bar
>
> What happens is that it expands to
>
> if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
> # Package removal, not upgrade
> systemctl --no-reload disable --now foo \ > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
> fi
> bar
>
> which is obviously complete garbage and not what we expected. It is
> simply not safe to ever use line continuations in combination with
> macros.
I forgot to ask this in the previous message - would it be reasonable to
have a syntax-check rule that forbid any line in libvirt.spec.in that
started with "<whitespace>%" and ended with \ ? (Personally I had no
idea of this rule, and I'm sure most others didn't either).
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> libvirt.spec.in | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
> index bc8257f34b..6bf8368476 100644
> --- a/libvirt.spec.in
> +++ b/libvirt.spec.in
> @@ -1512,9 +1512,9 @@ exit 0
>
> %if %{with_systemd}
> %if %{with_systemd_macros}
> - %systemd_post virtlockd.socket virtlockd-admin.socket \
> - virtlogd.socket virtlogd-admin.socket \
> - libvirtd.service
> + %systemd_post virtlockd.socket virtlockd-admin.socket
> + %systemd_post virtlogd.socket virtlogd-admin.socket
> + %systemd_post libvirtd.service
> %else
> if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
> # Initial installation
> @@ -1549,9 +1549,9 @@ touch %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart || :
> %preun daemon
> %if %{with_systemd}
> %if %{with_systemd_macros}
> - %systemd_preun libvirtd.service \
> - virtlogd.socket virtlogd-admin.socket virtlogd.service \
> - virtlockd.socket virtlockd-admin.socket virtlockd.service
> + %systemd_preun libvirtd.service
> + %systemd_preun virtlogd.socket virtlogd-admin.socket virtlogd.service
> + %systemd_preun virtlockd.socket virtlockd-admin.socket virtlockd.service
> %else
> if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
> # Package removal, not upgrade
--
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