rpmbuild --eval of lua macros

[Florian Festi]

On 07/09/2015 08:47 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get rpmbuild to print the expansion of the %{patches}
> macro in our kernel package.  When I run rpmbuild --eval %{patches}
> kernel.spec, I get the following error:
> 
> error: lua script failed: [string "<lua>"]:1: bad argument #1 to
> 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
> 
> Looking at the macro, it seems it is dynamically constructed as rpm
> parses the spec file.  What I cannot figure out is how to force rpm to
> actually do that when passing --eval.  It seems the --eval option
> doesn't call the code that would build the patches table?  That is my
> best guess anyway.
> 
> So is there a way to get rpm to expand this macro and print out the value?

There is a bug in 4.12 that prevents doing that. See
344f938670b8f7400ef177945cef5552783d450f. Can you please try the newly
released rpm-4.12.90 aka 4.13-alpha if it fixes your problem? It is
currently available in Fedora rawhide or you can build it from source.


As the commit message says:

Fix adding of sources to lua variables during recursive parsing of spec

- Before this fix sources and patches weren't added to lua variables
  "sources" and "patches" if they were located in spec file after tag
  "BuildArch". Now it works.(rhbz:#1084309)


moving the BuildArch entry down may also do the trick.

Florian

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