The alternative syntax that is backward compatible is using “-P 0" instead
of "0".

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 10:09 AM Susi Lehtola <jussileht...@fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> it appears rpm has now deprecated the old %patch syntax in rawhide, which
> means
> that any old-style expressions
>
> %patch0 -p1 -b .overflow
>
> must now be written as
>
> %patch 0 -p1 -b .overflow
>
> Unfortunately, all the epel branches, in turn, do not support the new
> %patch
> syntax. This means that one either
> - cannot use the same spec file to build in epel or
> - must introduce conditionals and duplicate code in the spec files
>
> %if 0%{?epel} < 10
> %patch0 -p1 -b .overflow
> %else
> %patch 0 -p1 -b .overflow
> %endif
>
> Is there any hope of fixing this issue, or altenatively, a known
> workaround that
> is compatible in both branches?
>
> Susi
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