On 08/03/2012 02:02 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2012/8/3 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 01.08.12 15:28, Tom Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines,
covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros
What's the rationale behind having these in /etc? This is hardly user
configuration, and only ever used if people build their own RPMs. We
really should try harder not to clutter /etc with stuff that is not
configuration.
Why not have this somewhere below /usr?
Because rpm doesn't have a drop-in directory for macros anywhere in
/usr, nobody has asked for one before this, and while I agree on "/etc
admin purity" being a good thing generally, it has not been (and still
isn't) enough of a reason to make it worth the pain for me to personally
drive such a move.
Agree. We should install them into /usr/lib/rpm.
Exactly. Static stuff installed by packages should not land in /etc.
It's a pain on updates when it's marked as config, and stuff goes
wrong all the time, because things in /etc invite everybody to edit
it, and boom. We really should try hard to leave /etc to the admin,
and not the OS vendor.
And just in case that this will come up: all the bad prior art in /etc
should not be a reason to continue that road, it's not the right way,
and we can do better, and need to do better. :)
Well, adding support for something like /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/ would be
essentially a one-liner patch. Dealing with the consequences of moving
things there is a whole lot more work, annoyance and distro-version
incompatibilities however.
- Panu -
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