[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Ability to have a file in %files via a command (macro) evaluated at buildtime (#894)

Miro Hrončok notifications at github.com
Thu Oct 10 16:37:48 UTC 2019


I'd like to have a macro, that sees the files after `%install` is finished and can do stuff with the files in `%buildroot` and `$PWD`, and I like to use the macro in the `%files` section.

Minimal (not so useful) example with a command:

This works:

```
%files
%(echo /foo)
```

This doesn't:

```
%build
echo /foo > ./special_file
...

%files
%(cat ./special_file)
```

I know that the above could be achieved  via `%files -f special_file`, but imagine the macro I want to put in there is not simply catting a file, but doing some logic.

Currently, the usual workflow is:

1. get the command/macro output a file
2. use that file in `-f`

```
%{our_files} > special_file

%files -f special_file
```

However I want to avoid this step and be able to use:

```
%files
%{our_files}
```

What's needed to make this happen?

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