[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Document how to easily use `%{uncompress}` to expand source archives (Issue #4148)

[Panu Matilainen]

pmatilai left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#4148)

Frankly, I don't expect anybody to use, much less remember, the esoteric multi-source extract options of %setup 😄 I don't remember them either.

%uncompress as a macro is more of a historical artifact now, but I agree the double-underscore %__rpmuncompress isn't inviting to use. Perhaps the right thing to do is move rpmuncompress out of /usr/lib/rpm into /usr/bin to one doesn't "need" silly macros to call it. I was on a crusade to solve something else when splitting it into a separate command, and while the case of packagers using it directly was on the back of my mind, I didn't really think it through it seems.

So ... lets do just that. There's nothing about rpmuncompress that demands it be only called from inside rpm(build).

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