Hi,
As some of you have noticed a major rework of the forge macros has
finally landed in rawhide:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1155046
(helpers to package projects hosted on Gitlab, Github, Googlecode,
Bitbucket, etc)
It adds the ability to process multiple source archives in a single
spec. That was the main missing feature, pointed out by reviewers during
the initial integration last year.
If you do not need the feature there should be no intentional change in
the way the macros behave.
If you do need it it's now possible via two switches:
1. -z <number>: process the numberth block of definitions in the spec
file
2. -a: process every blocks of source definitions in one go, without
separate -z calls
A contrived spec example that pulls every kind of source the macro
supports right now is given in:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/pull-request/35
The last version of the macros was documented through
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forge-hosted_projects_packaging_automation
That proved not too successful. The wiki page was a lot of effort to
write and maintain, packagers do not read it, FPC never figured how to
integrate it in guidelines. And then there is the new docs project.
Therefore, I now intend to drop this wiki page. And just ship some
example spec templates in a redhat-rpm-config subpackage or somewhere
else¹. That should be easier to maintain, to audit, to keep up to date,
and to use by Fedora packagers.
Calling the same block of macro code several times with different
settings, and without side effects, in the same spec, required a huge
amount of cleanups and refactoring. Including, bugfixes in rpm itself.
Thus, while there is no intentional behaviour change for packagers that
only use a single source archive in their spec, the cleanups may change
or remove some undocumented and unintended ways to use the macros that
were possible in the previous version.
For those reasons, while a backport to stable or even epel-rpm-macros is
planed, it won't occur immediately.
If you are the maintainer of complex packaging macros in Fedora, the
whole content of
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/c/c70110c677904a188d66ffd01a9ab024469ca62d
may be of interest. Implementing this feature required lots of macro
infra work which is completely generic and not forge-specific.
If you are just a rpm macro user, you can ignore this plumbing.
Many thanks to the redhat-rpm-config maintainers that had the thankless
task to help me do things that were never done or possible before.
Evaluating new code, without a past reference to build upon, is always
scary.
Best regards,
¹ That mostly depends on what FPC decides in
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/813
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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