On 07/19/2016 12:41 PM, Domen Vrankar wrote:
> 2016-07-19 0:42 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 07/18/2016 03:27 PM, Domen Vrankar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to prevent a macro in spec file from expanding and I've
>>> read that rewriting %{dist} (and probably %{?dist}) to %%{dist} in
>>> comments would do the trick.
>>>
>>> I was surprised that it doesn't seem to work outside comments so my
>>> question is if there is a different way of preventing certain defined
>>> macros from expanding?
>>> (not all of the instances of that macro but only one instance that I'd
>>> wish to treat as normal text and not as a macro)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Domen
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>>
>> Works for me:
>>
>> %prep
>> echo %%{dist}
>>
>> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /tmp/rpm/rpm-tmp.dxASqM
>> + umask 022
>> + cd /export/home/orion/redhat/test-0.1
>> + echo '%{dist}'
>> %{dist}
>>
>>
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>
> You're right... It seems to work on different locations in spec file
> except when it is part of %files section.
>
> Is there a way to suppress the expansion in file/directory names?
> Also is there a way to escape other special characters such as * or
> %%% in file/directory names?
>
> I know that it's a bad idea to use such characters in names in the
> first place but I'm still curious if this is possible.
Ah, interesting. One hack that seems to work:
%undefine dist
%files
/%{dist}
You can also generally use * and ? to match the strange characters in the
filenames, e.g.:
%files
/*dist?
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