rpm4 on carme*

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Mon Dec 14 21:10:10 CET 2020


On 12/14/20 5:20 PM, Jan Palus wrote:

> If commit message includes '%' then rpmbuild spawned by builder script
> fails. See ie test.spec which includes '%prep':
>
> error: line 40: second %prep
>
> builder creates spec copy with %changelog appended. Apparently rpm.org
> evaluates macros in %changelog while rpm5 does not. Not sure whether
> we're supposed to escape macros in changelog now or whether rpm.org
> should read %changelog as is.

looks like we're back to 10+ years old issues that pld solved.

pld (and later rpm5) had a patch to disable macro expansion in 
%changelog section



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