Opinions: Providing "buildsys-macros" in the installed system

[Matthias Saou]

Jesse Keating wrote :

> I propose we ship these macros in something like redhat-rpm-config for each 
> release, so that when somebody is rebuilding a package on their system, the 
> macros are defined correctly for whatever release they are running.  If they 
> are rebuilding for another release/distribution, they really should be using 
> mock, and having redhat-rpm-config define the right things within their mock 
> chroot.

I'm all for it too! :-)

1) They'll be harmless for spec files not making any use of them.
2) They'll make the right thing happen for the spec files that do.

Matthias

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