Request for a sponsor and a review of: pam_abl

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:20:52 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> - how about using %{__make}, %{__install} or %{__rm}? Is there a general
> guideline about those macros?
> 
> Noted: both questions not only directed to you Oliver - I appreciate
> advises by anyone willing to teach me.

Those are programs which are expected to be in default search PATH. I
would not expect "make", "rm" and "install" to be stored in any special
location. I would not expect that %{__make} expands to something different
than "make" in PATH. So, what these macros do is they create a superfluous
dependency on their definition on the package "rpm" and "redhat-rpm-config".
And they cause syntax-highlighting to colour them like variables instead
of executables.

Oliver Falk wrote:

> For example, it makes no sense to 
> use macros in %description or in the Summary tag.

But sure it does.

  %description
  %{summary}.

can make sense. I could think of other examples.