topdir macro

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Sun, 03 May 2009, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> why not have such default macros:
> 
> %_topdir        %{expand:%%global _topdir %(d=$([ -d ../../packages ] && (cd ../.. && pwd)); d=${d:-$([ -d ../packages ] && (cd ..; pwd))}; echo ${d:-$HOME/rpm})}%_topdir
> %_specdir       %{_topdir}/packages/%{name}
> %_sourcedir     %{_specdir}
> 
> the %{name} seems to work too:

It won't work in case of _alt_kernel and all other packages that have
%{name} inconsistent with package name.

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