On 4/10/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is the "mistake" that my /etc/rpm/platform file has the word "redhat", so it does not match exactly the name of the subdirectory in /usr/lib/rpm ?
Here's some historical context that might help. When per-platform configuration (i.e. /usr/lib/rpm/*/macros) was added, vendor was not included in the name of the subdirs. That means that the 2-tuple CPU-OS rather than the 3-tuple CPU-VENDOR-OS was used as the name of per-platform configuration. When vendor specific configuration was demanded of rpm, there needed to be some way to provide per-vendor per-platform configuration. So the 3-tuple form was handed to vendors for their per-platform confguration uses, while the 2-tuple form was left to rpm default per-platform configuration. What has never been clarified (and ultimately dooms the mess) is whether rpm or the vendor is responsible for configuring rpm. The current scheme largely inheirits most of the default configuration into vendor configuration implictly. Meanwhile, %_sysconfdir is just a bleeping variable that you want to have the value "/etc". Put the line %_sysconfdir /etc in /etc/rpm/macros or ~/.rpmmacros and the value will be correct. hth 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
