[Rpm-ecosystem] Wish: Modular RPM recipe capability

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/14/2015 04:54 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As a packager of software for an RPM distro, I tend to enjoy a lot of the
> benefits of the RPM style of packaging (such as flexibility on how patches and
> sources are arranged, how sources are extracted and arranged, macros for
> easily building packages of modules like gems, java classes, etc.), but
> there's one thing that I would like to be able to do: separate sections out
> into their own files and declare something along the lines of an include
> statement to import the actions specified there into the spec.

Just as a comment, since you don't give specific examples.  Often repetitive
or complicated tasks are put into rpm macros.  This is the most common way to
abstract out tasks.


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