On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 12:21 +0100, clime wrote: > rpmbuild needs to get a preprocessed spec already. Hmm, what do you mean with that? The spec files we currently have in dist-git can be built directly with rpmbuild, you just need to tell rpmbuild that the sources are in the same directory, e.g.: --- 8< --- nils@gibraltar:~/dist-git/fedora/rpms/dcraw (master)> rpmbuild --define "%_sourcedir $PWD" -ba --clean dcraw.spec setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1563926400 Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PTKY48 + umask 022 + cd /home/nils/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /home/nils/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf dcraw + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/nils/dist-git/fedora/rpms/dcraw/dcraw-9.28.0.tar.gz [... skip build messages ...] Wrote: /home/nils/rpmbuild/SRPMS/dcraw-9.28.0-6.fc31.src.rpm Wrote: /home/nils/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/dcraw-debugsource-9.28.0-6.fc31.x86_64.rpm Wrote: /home/nils/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/dcraw-9.28.0-6.fc31.x86_64.rpm Wrote: /home/nils/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/dcraw-debuginfo-9.28.0-6.fc31.x86_64.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.qq02g8 + umask 022 + cd /home/nils/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd dcraw + /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/nils/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/dcraw-9.28.0-6.fc31.x86_64 + RPM_EC=0 ++ jobs -p + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.x7fCS6 + umask 022 + cd /home/nils/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf dcraw + RPM_EC=0 ++ jobs -p + exit 0 nils@gibraltar:~/dist-git/fedora/rpms/dcraw (master)> --- >8 --- That aside, the main thing I don't like in your proposal is that the files would still be called '*.spec', but with the additional macros they wouldn't be RPM spec files anymore. Files which are to be preprocessed, should be distinguishable from the preprocessed version by a different extension, e.g.: - something.c --> cpp --> something.i - Makefile.am --> automake --> Makefile.in --> configure --> Makefile - sendmail.mc -> /etc/mail/make (m4) -> sendmail.cf Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to Software Engineer purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Red Hat Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: D0C1 1576 CDA6 5B6E BBAE 95B2 7D53 7FCA E9F6 395D old: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx