Lately, I noticed that several SPEC files in Fedora use this syntax:
Source: macros.vlc
And this file defines macros that are loaded by rpmbuild during buildtime and are used in the SPEC file.
This makes parsing of the SPEC file harder, because any parser have to have this maro file in current directory - just
reading SPEC file is not enough.
I mentioned vlc, but it is used in many other packages: valkey, zig, typelib-srpm-macros, ansible-packaging, rakudo, sip
and many many other.
Why are packagers doing this? I am not saying this is bad, it just surprised me. I am used to put all macros at the top
of the SPEC file and this is new to me. What is the benefit?
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Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Manager, Packit and CPT, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
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