On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM Iñaki Ucar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > El mar., 4 nov. 2025 13:43, Neal Gompa <[email protected]> escribió: >> >> 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. > > > Nice. What happens if this option is processed by an older release? Is it > ignored? >
I would hope it would choke, but we might not be so lucky. With %setup it should fail, but I don't know about %autosetup. Ignoring parameters would be a horribly broken behavior. -- 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
