[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] spec: indent %if to make it easier to see conditions

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jan 10 11:50:01 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:57:28AM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 12:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >* libvirt.spec.in: Add some indentation to make it easier to follow
> >various conditionals.
> >---
> >  libvirt.spec.in | 858 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 428 insertions(+), 430 deletions(-)
> >
> Painful experience makes me agree that the unindented nested %ifs
> decrease the readability of the spec file and thus would be in favor
> of this patch.
> However, indentation seems to be uncustomary. On the other hand, it
> doesn't seem to be explicitly forbidden, looking at e.g.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
> Any packager here that wants to throw in 2 cents?

IIUC, RPM will expand macros *anywhere* in the spec file, even
in places you don't want it to like comments ! So I don't think
adding some whitespace will harm things

Daniel
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