On Fri, 03.08.12 21:10, Panu Matilainen (pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org) wrote:
On 08/03/2012 08:26 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>On Fri, 03.08.12 14:44, Panu Matilainen (pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org) wrote:
>
>>On 08/03/2012 02:02 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>>On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>2012/8/3 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung(a)0pointer.de>:
>>>>>On Wed, 01.08.12 15:28, Tom Callaway (tcallawa(a)redhat.com) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging
Guidelines,
>>>>>>covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros
>>>>>
>>>>>What's the rationale behind having these in /etc? This is hardly
user
>>>>>configuration, and only ever used if people build their own RPMs. We
>>>>>really should try harder not to clutter /etc with stuff that is not
>>>>>configuration.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why not have this somewhere below /usr?
>>
>>Because rpm doesn't have a drop-in directory for macros anywhere in
>>/usr, nobody has asked for one before this, and while I agree on
>>"/etc admin purity" being a good thing generally, it has not been
>>(and still isn't) enough of a reason to make it worth the pain for
>>me to personally drive such a move.
>
>OpenSUSE has this in /usr/lib/rpm/macros instead. Makes a lot of sense
>to copy that scheme from them and making the delta between the distros
>here a bit smaller.
Ehh? /usr/lib/rpm/macros is and has always been rpm's own "factory
default" configuration *file*. In Suse, Fedora and every rpm based
distro I know of. Suse patches the upstream config directly to suit
their purposes, in Fedora-land the distro defaults are set in
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros, but that's also a just a file, not a
directory where you can drop in bits and pieces of extra macros from
different packages. Obviously Suse could've added a drop-in macro
directory of their own but looking at their factory rpm sources, I
see no evidence of that.
Oops, sorry, I was misinformed on this one. Still believe it belongs in
/usr though.
Sory for the confusion.
Lennart
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