On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 11:54:14 +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 11:52:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On 10/8/19 3:26 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 13:03:48 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > Look, I'm no more in love with the traditional layout than anybody, I'm just > > > > saying changing the default is not as simple as you'd like to think. Anybody > > > > wanting to work on changing the default is welcome to propose it upstream, > > > > patches welcome and all. > > > > > > Would keeping this Fedora specific to begin with help slowly migrate > > > people over? What if we announce this via the change process for F32? > > > The change will be to modify `/usr/lib/rpm/macros` to use per-directory > > > locations as you'd suggested in the snippet since it is closer to the > > > dist-git workflow that is now in use. People can still easily revert to > > > rpmbuild/*, and the contingency plan will be to just not make the > > > change. I don't know how this would affect rpmdev-buildtree and how to > > > handle that (remove it?). > > > > > > > Changing rpm defaults will break existing setups, people will be unhappy and > > I'll get the blame regardless of who actually did it. > > > > I'd rather suggest changing rpmdev-setuptree to configure things that way, > > it already modifies ~/.rpmmacros in various ways, some totally redundant > > (like setting %_topdir to a longtime rpm default). > > That starts nudging people towards that direction, but leaves existing > > setups alone. > > Sure. That sounds good. I'll see what I can come up with an open PRs > etc. PR filed: https://pagure.io/rpmdevtools/pull-request/48 -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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