trying to unpack multiple sources

Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov
Mon Dec 8 22:30:06 UTC 2008


> > 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 ;-).

I read it that way probably because it doesn't make reference to chaining
those options on the same line.  A single example like that and I wouldn't
have made the assumption.

-greg



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