On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, James Olin Oden wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > > am i close? or am i making this far too difficult? and what's the > > > format for prepending a macros file to the default list, rather than > > > overriding the whole list? > > > > > For the global stuff, have it put in /etc/rpm/macros and it will be their > > for your users. For the local stuff, their ~/.rpmmacros just needs to > > be edited. Whether you do this by hand, or have it automated is up to > > you. > > i can't do that. the few src rpms that need to be built are part of a > much larger CVS checkout, and i have no control over the users or their > systems who check this stuff out. in short, i can't assume that *any* > customization has been done by these users, either personally or on their > systems. for the most part, i may not even know *who* is checking this > stuff out, i just have to guarantee that anyone getting it can do the > automated build. > So you don't control the build systems...what a pain (-; All is not lost, but you will have to provide a wrapper to build the rpms if you want any sort of control of the build process. What the wrapper can do is: - generate macro files. - generate an rpmrc file that specifies the path to these generated macro files. You do this with the macrofiles: entry wich is a colon delimited list of macros files. - When you run rpmbuild in the wrapper specify this generated rc file (--rcfile, this too takes a colon delimited list, so you can include the default ones after yours). I might be missing something (if I am someone please beat me with a clue bat), but if you want to insure that certain "macros" exist in the build environment, but you can't touch the build environment for the most part I can't think of any other way to get there. This solution does assume you are allowed to create temporary files. Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
