Re: [rpm-list] Trouble with RPM and %{_sysconfdir}.

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> On 6 April 2007 at 11:11, Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> wrote:
>
> > If all else fails, this will change the value of %_sysconfdir for  
> > you:
> >
> >      echo '%_sysconfdir /etc' >> ~/.rpmmacros
>
> My Linux systems are just as Jeff said.  In addition to that I
> sometimes use this in a specfile, in cases where my %_prefix is
> other than the default AND when the source code is free from
> hard-coded paths, or can be patched to be so.
>
> %{expand: %define _sysconfdir %{_prefix}%{_sysconfdir}/somewhere}

If you *have* to do that, try this instead:

    %{expand: %%global _sysconfdir %{_prefix}%{_sysconfdir}/somewhere}

All that the %expand does is reparse its argument, kinda like eval in  
shell. In
this situation, the %{expand: ...} is likely overkill. OTOH, if % 
{_sysconfdir} or
%{_prefix} expansion involved some complicated system(3) invocation,  
one might
want to run the command once, not every time that %{_sysconfdir} or % 
{_prefix}
was expanded.

The %% insures that the %define is done on the 2nd, not the first,  
pass. One
of the two % characters is stripped on the first pass.

Using %global insures that the definition is persistent, kinda like  
using
global rather than automatic storage in C.

But you're likely only need
    %define _sysconfdir %{_prefix}%{_sysconfdir}/somewhere
without all the other goo.

hth

73 de Jeff

> Cheers...
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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