[Rpm-maint] Issue: "--rcfile" option can not work for rpm command in 4.8.0

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/18/2011 12:10 PM, Bingel Tang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry to bother you!
>
> I'm not sure is it a bug.
>
> I'm working with rpm-4.8.0, and find that "--rcfile" option can not work,
> please
> see below to get detailed information:
>
> ******************************************************************
> Environment:   RHEL6  Linux  (x86_64)
>
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$/bin/rpm --version
> RPM version 4.8.0
>
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$/bin/rpm -q rpm<<<<  installed rpm-4.8.0-12 rpm
> package
> rpm-4.8.0-12.el6.x86_64
>
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$cat /root/rpmbuild/rpmrc<<<  the rcfile
> macrofiles:/root/rpmbuild/rpmmacros
   ^^^^^^^^^^

It's not that --rcfile is not honored, it's that macrofiles directive in 
rpmrc files hasn't been processed since rpm >= 4.6.0. Maybe it's about 
time to start warning on it too...

>
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$cat /root/rpmbuild/rpmmacros<<<  the macro file
> %_topdir  /root/rpm
>
> [root at rhel6 rpm-4.8.0]$/bin/rpm --rcfile /root/rpmbuild/rpmrc --showrc |grep
> "_topdir"
> -14: _builddir    %{_topdir}/BUILD
> -14: _buildrootdir    %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT
> -14: _rpmdir    %{_topdir}/RPMS
> -14: _sourcedir    %{_topdir}/SOURCES
> -14: _specdir    %{_topdir}/SPECS
> -14: _srcrpmdir    %{_topdir}/SRPMS
> -14: _topdir    %{getenv:HOME}/rpmbuild<<<<<<  did NOT change to /root/rpm
> ******************************************************************
>
> Any replies will be awfully appreciated!

Just place any macros you want to override into ~/.rpmmacros (or 
system-wide rpm config), or --define on the command line, depending on 
the situation.

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     - Panu -