On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> wrote: > > The %setup/%autosetup macros require the top-level directory of the tarball > to be manually specific (if it is not the default of %name-%release). This > requires twiddling with the spec when switching between release and > snapshot builds, or reusing the spec for CI, etc. Over the years, this has > caused counteless builds to fail and soaked up immesurable maintainer time. > > After being bitten by this again (CI failing), we figured out a relatively > simple way to handle this [1]: > > %autosetup -n %(tar -tf %{SOURCE0} | head -n1) -p1 > > (this is the PSA part). > > It'd really be great if the macros could do this automatically. > (this is the RFE part ;)) > > [1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemd/c/8e2833a5b64f7e2ce62ea0a2d0ec9e393e718dfa
This has been a thing already since RPM 4.20. You can use %setup/%autosetup -C to have it automatically handle the directory for you. See the notes here: https://rpm.org/releases/4.20.0#spec--package-building -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
