trying to unpack multiple sources

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Mon Dec 8 22:23:16 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:15:42PM -0600, Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:

> Ahh... the one line only is what got me.  The Fedora RPM Guide made it seem
> like it was automatic[1], and this older
> guide made it look like you could run %setup more than once[2] (my bad for
> using a reference from 2001).
> 
> thanks again.
> 
> [1]
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch09s04.html#id2971580
> [2] http://rpm.rutgers.edu/guide.html %prep section

I don't read [1] that way, but I see in the first line of 9.4.1 an error:
%setup is *not* a (predefined) macro in RPM, but a built-in command.  Not
that many people will note the difference ;-).

It looks like [2] is just wrong, yes.  It also has never been that way.

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