On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Jason Corley wrote:

> The lack of lazy mkdir is one problem, the other appears to be the
> macros.in doesn't use $prefix but rather %{_var} for repackage dir...
> Would it be a good idea to change all the filesystem macros in
> macros.in to obey $prefix?  Granted, that is making a choice on "who
> configures rpm" so I can see the argument both ways.

Perfectly OK, the predominant viewpoint is that rpm-5.0 "just works"
for all possible prefixes.

The issue is that /var doesn't really fit into a $prefix hierarchical  
scheme
nicely. So the AutoFu needs to guess what was intended with --prefix.

73 de Jeff

> Jason
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 9:59 AM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Jason Corley wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this error?  It appears install-exec-hook is
>>> ignoring $prefix for the repackage dir?
>>>
>>> make  install-exec-hook
>>> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-hook'.
>>> mkdir: /var/local: Permission denied
>>> mkdir: /var/local: No such file or directory
>>> mkdir: /var/local/spool: No such file or directory
>>> make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
>>> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>>>
>>> ... devtool trace ...
>>>
>>> error: cannot create %_repackage_dir /var/local/spool/repackage/
>>> 1197490417
>>> Wrote: /var/local/spool/repackage/1197490417/gpg-
>>> pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72.(none)
>>> .rpm
>>>
>>
>> Yah, I've seen.
>>
>> The hysterical issue has always been deciding who/what is responsible
>> for configuring rpm. If rpm is responsible, then there is a  
>> missing lazy
>> mkdir on the entire path. If the luser is responsible for configuring
>> rpm, then its rpm's responsibility to report the mis-configuration as
>> an error.
>>
>> I'll add the lazy mkdir and try to couple the side-effect into
>> repackaging
>> configuration more carefully.
>>
>> 73 de Jeff
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