[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Allow automating %setup arguments (#368)

[Jeff Johnson]

The literal request to append %setup_args (or %patch_args, same deal) to %setup/%patch is utterly trivial configuration: overload the existing %setup or %patch macros-in-C with any macro definition you wish.

Meanwhile, that isn't going to do anything very useful since neither %setup nor %patch is a single command: both are used to generate multiple lines of shell script, and simply overriding arguments does not provide sufficient scoping hints to tell how/where the overrides are to be inserted.

The tricky problem isn't %setup_args either, but rather the side-effect of setting the buildsubdir. You can already write other multi line macros that expand to whatever you wish, the problem being that you will also need an additional "cd %buildsubdir" at the beginning of %build/%install/%check scriptlets since not using %setup will not set set %buildsubdir.

Any rational attempt to change %setup will have to change the generated shell script template. Devising a new template requires explicit design and examples, not just an RFE for (entirely unspecified) additional arguments with a loose claim of "showing its age".

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