[NOT A SOLUTION] Fwd: automatically modifying scriptlets (included files) at package build time
Eddy Petrișor
eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 14:33:36 UTC 2008
On 18/03/2008, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:34 +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just want to let you know I discovered the solution to my problem.
> >
> >
> > Is as simple as adding something after the %setup command in the %prep section:
> >
> > Index: SPECS/common.spec
> > ===================================================================
> > --- SPECS/common.spec (revision 2033)
> > +++ SPECS/common.spec (revision 2034)
> > @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
> >
> > %prep
> > %setup -n common
> > +. common.inf && export THISVER="`echo "$VERS.$SUBVERS.$RELEASE" | tr -s '.'`"
> > +sed -i "s#^THISVER=.*#THISVER=$THISVER#" %{SOURCE101}
> > +sed -i "s#^THISVER=.*#THISVER=$THISVER#" %{SOURCE102}
>
> This way you are modifying your sources-files.
>
> This is bad for 2 closely related reasons:
Make that 3. It doesn't work.
> - Sources should be considered read-only in general.
> - This is likely to break on "repeated runs": A previous run modified
> your sources in such a way, your next rpmbuild run is not unlikely to
> fail.
No, since the file I am sourcing is never changed during the build process.
> You will want to work on copies of your SOURCEX's instead of SOURCEX
> directly.
I will dig into this, since I really dislike having outside scripts doing this.
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Regards,
EddyP
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