Re: Forcing a script to bomb, etc.

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Friday, 12 October 2007, at 10:10:13 (-0700),
Philip Prindeville wrote:

>  So... a few miscellaneous questions.
> 
>  First, where is the current authoritative documentation?  I've not found 
>  %{!? documented anywhere.

/usr/share/doc/rpm-*/conditionalbuilds 

>  Second, is there a guide to what macros are common on all platforms, like 
>  %{with and %{without?

Not really, but the stuff in /usr/share/doc is a good start.

>  Third, can I force an RPM to error with a message is a standard
>  fashion, if it finds (for instance) that it's being built with a
>  combination of incompatible --with options?

It's a shell script.  Do whatever you like.

>  Fourth, is it philosophically preferable to have a package build by
>  default with everything, but have the package turn stuff off with
>  --without xxx, or build the smallest supportable package, but turn
>  things on via rpmbuild --with arguments?

It's your package; do it however you want.  I prefer to default to
building everything and require manual intervention to turn things
off.  Makes things more autobuilder-friendly.

>  Lastly, where's the documentation on writing and using macros that take 
>  arguments?

See above.

Michael

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