Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Jennings
On Friday, 04 January 2008, at 16:35:28 (-0600), Tim Mooney wrote: I clearly wasn't paying attention at the right time. Me either... Oh well. Can you give a more specific example of what you believe the right way of handling this is? I'm picturing a lot of boilerplate goop propagated into

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 7, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Friday, 04 January 2008, at 19:07:10 (-0500), Jeff Johnson wrote: The default for @libdir@ is /usr/lib in autoconf, and so is the default in rpm macros. The per-platform config override is in the top level cpu-os-macros.tar.gz. I hear

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Michael Jennings wrote: %_lib is incorrectly being set to /lib instead of /lib64. This used to be automatically handled by RPM until someone fixed it. So what is the new and improved way of doing this? :) There was consensus here that the whole /lib vs. /lib64 fiddling

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: Comments on 5.0b4, Ralf S. Engelschall said (at 11:23pm...: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Michael Jennings wrote: %_lib is incorrectly being set to /lib instead of /lib64. This used to be automatically handled by RPM until someone fixed it. So what is the new and improved way

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: Comments on 5.0b4, Ralf S. Engelschall said (at 11:23pm...: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008, Michael Jennings wrote: %_lib is incorrectly being set to /lib instead of /lib64. This used to be automatically handled by RPM until someone

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: %_lib is incorrectly being set to /lib instead of /lib64. This used to be automatically handled by RPM until someone fixed it. So what is the new and improved way of doing this? :) Does this really belong in /usr/lib/rpm/macros, a

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: I've been working with JBJ and his spec file for a long time, and I'm used to having a very minimal set of changes from his spec to mine. Other than some ugly perl/sed inplace edit of macros.in, I don't see how to change _lib in the rpm.spec.