Le Lun 28 fÃvrier 2011 21:13, Toshio Kuratomi a Ãcrit : > Recently the question of why we require people to macroize their paths in > spec files (and by extension, patch build scripts to use the expansion of > our macros instead of hardcoded values) came up. FPC only knew of one, not > so great reason: if the paths were to change, for instance a change in the > FHS, then spec files that use macros (in both the spec file and the > expansion of those macros is used in the upstream build scripts) would only > need a rebuild to pick up th new paths. Macroizing directory paths is very useful for SIGs to enforce consistency in Fedora packages when a specific domain has no strong established file location conventions and different upstream make radically different choices. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
