On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 01:48:36PM +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM 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 ;))
> 
> rpm can already do that.
> %autosetup -C

Oh, very nice. So RFEv2:
add this to https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/autosetup.html
and other places…

Zbyszek
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