On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:18:05 -0400, TC (Tom) wrote:
> On 08/16/2011 12:23 PM, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> > That must be a a bug. Regardless of Fedora's packaging guidelines,
> > macros without brackets is legal purely syntactically.
>
> How would it be able to identify macros without brackets?
>
> Say you have:
>
> %namev%version
>
> Is the macro %namev? %name? %na?
>
> It is sloppy form. It is impossible to parse. Just because rpm will
> accept it doesn't mean you should use it.
RPM may accept it, but it cannot always parse it correctly either:
echo "a=b" > %nameconfig.cfg
won't do the right thing even with %name being defined by default.
For
echo "a=b" > %{name}config.cfg
to break similary, %name would need to be undefined.
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