On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Till Maas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:58:42PM -0600, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> 2010/2/14 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> %{buildroot} probably fits best in the "Other macros" section, because
>>> it is a macro to be used inside the spec. Bug the %{_buildrootdir}
>>> macros like the other RPM directory macros is afaik supposed to be used
>>> only with rpmbuild --define to change the behaviour of rpmbuild.
>>
>> Was typing the nonexistent %{_buildroot} instead of %{buildroot} a typo?
>
> Yes, I just fixed this.
>
>> On a somewhat related note, some directory macros (e.g.,
>> %_keyringpath) contain trailing slashes, while others don't. Does
>> this matter enough to be worth addressing?
>
> %_keyringpath is not mentioned at all and according to 'rpm --showrc |
> %grep "/$"' it is the only macro with a trailing slash. So maybe this
> can just be changed. But it also does not hurt that much, because afaik
> a double slash in a path will be handled like a single slash.
%_keyringpath is nothing packagers should be concerned with. Neither is
%_buildrootdir. These are rpm internals, unfortunately the macro namespace
is well and thoroughly mixed up wrt what "internal" and whats not.
- Panu -
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