On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 1:19 AM Tom Hughes via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> It hasn't been needed for a long time.
Good, thanks. Off it goes. :)
> It's just making %license an alias for %doc if your building
> for a release old enough that %license isn't supported, as
> detected by checking if %licensedir is defined.
Why is it checked through the %licensedir macro, and not the %license
VFT instead?
If %doc VFT could be used as an actual value for a macro, I'd assume
it could be used in conditional too. (to verify whether such VFT
exists)
Michal
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 1:19 AM Tom Hughes via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On 30/11/2023 00:14, Michal Schorm wrote:
>
> > I've stumbled upon this piece of code in my package:
> > # Define license macro if not present
> > %{!?_licensedir:%global license %doc}
> >
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mariadb/blob/rawhide/f/mariadb.spec#_322
> >
> > Git blame points out 7 year old commit:
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mariadb/c/e3d4b2f14e5e0cb7b42b468ffb9de6ff39e3d248?branch=rawhide
> >
> > The RPM docs says the %license 'Virtual File Attribute' was added in
> > version 4.11, which has been added to Fedora years before the commit
> > above:
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rpm/c/2970ed07c98c8929eca0bdfebda389af5a2ef92d?branch=rawhide
> >
> > I tried to remove the line and I haven't noticed any differences in
> > output of "rpm -q -d <rpm>" and "rpm -q -L <rpm>" before and after.
> >
> > I'm not even sure what the line is trying to do - I read it as "under
> > some condition, create %license global macro with value %doc".
>
> It's just making %license an alias for %doc if your building
> for a release old enough that %license isn't supported, as
> detected by checking if %licensedir is defined.
>
> It hasn't been needed for a long time.
>
> Tom
>
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