Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> writes: > On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 20:07 +0100, Dan Čermák wrote: >> clime <cl...@fedoraproject.org> writes: >> >> > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 22:04, James Szinger <jszin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:05:40 -0500 >> > > Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > 1. How does this affect users who download, maybe modify, and rebuild >> > > the SRPM? Can they continue to use rpmbuid and mock as they have >> > > been? Does the SRPM contain the pre-processed or post-processed spec >> > > file? >> > >> > They can use mock if the preprocessing will be enabled for the >> > respective chroots where it is enabled in Koji/Fedora. >> > They can't directly use rpmbuild for those packages that contain the >> > macros. But they can use rpkg/fedpkg to do the work. >> > Or preprocess spec first and then use rpmbuild. I am aware this is a >> > negative point of this change. >> >> This is a pretty big downside imho, as that means that building Fedora >> packages that use these new kinds of macros in other build systems will >> become impossible or at the very least, very, very difficult. There is >> quite some development going on in OBS (afaik e.g. Igor exported all >> Fedora Rust rpms to OBS for automated rebuilds) and enabling this >> preprocessing will make these packages FTBFS in OBS. > > I mean, only if you're sourcing from dist-git?
Yes, but that's how one would use the sources when developing/testing on OBS (or at least I would). Cheers, Dan
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