Adding a new target?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/30/2012 01:32 PM, David Hagood wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 02:16 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>> /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc is "factory defaults", custom additions can be
>> added to
>>
>> a) "vendor" rpmrc (depends on how rpm was built,
>> /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/rpmrc on Fedora/RHEL and derivates)
>> b) per-host rpmrc (typically /etc/rpmrc)
>> c) per-user rpmrc (~/.rpmrc)
>
> It seemed to me that the way the logic for -target worked was that it
> looked for a file of that name ONLY under /usr/lib/rpm (at least I saw
> no attempt to look elsewhere where I ran an strace on RPM).

Oh you mean the "platform target" stuff - rpm's terminology in this area 
is woefully confused and overloaded. There's no similar 
default/per-host/per-user system for the platform macros, those need to 
go in /usr/lib/rpm/platform/ (drop the "platform" part for older versions).

The location is controlled by the macro search path, hardwired in the 
source, but it is possible to override the whole thing with 
--macros=<path> directive. Just bear in mind there are quite a few 
places the path needs to cover and the order is important. Here's the 
default macro search path for 4.8.x:
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=blob;f=lib/rpmrc.c;h=0818deb57720a6f2532d5be5aee46b73fabe7374;hb=refs/heads/rpm-4.8.x#l426

	- Panu -