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nebula-plugins / gradle-ospackage-plugin

Gradle plugin for constructing linux packages, specifically RPM and DEBs.
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rpm macros #136

Open gilday opened 8 years ago

gilday commented 8 years ago

I'm building an RPM which installs a daemon in systemd. Fedora documentation strongly recommends using spec file macros to properly handle install and uninstalling systemd managed services.

From reading other issues, I gather that the underlying library, redline-rpm, does not build an intermediate spec file; therefore, one cannot expect to use spec file macros with this plugin. Is that right, or am I missing something?

alexbrand commented 8 years ago

@gilday Did you ever figure this out? I am on the same boat... Trying to follow systemd guidelines for installing a service using the systemd RPM macros. (http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/daemon.html)

gilday commented 8 years ago

@alexbrand no, i have not figured out how to do this. I am invoking systemctl directly instead of using the macros as a workaround https://github.com/gilday/how-to-microservice/blob/master/build.gradle#L82

kevin-j-smith commented 7 years ago

Hello,

While working with the nebula rpm plugin for gradle I have found a difficult issue and I cannot locate the exact location as to where this is happening or how to escape it. Please help.

In the ospackage for nebula I am using:

preInstall(""" echo %_macros_variable_here """

When I go to install the rpm --define '_macros_variable_here hereIam' I see output %_macros_variable_here

Where I am looking for the actual value of the variable (where ever it is defined...command line, ~/.rpmmacro, ...)

The actual issue with when the spec file is created the % turns into %%. I have looked through nebula and I cannot find where it is being replace or how it is turning into %%. I have tried \% and \% and %% in order to escape the sign, without avail.

To work around this I have been manually running: rpmrebuild --package --notest-install -e example.rpm editing the %pre macros to remove the extra % and then saving the new rpm.

This new rpm will handle the defined macros properly. Do you have any idea 1) how the the extra percent sign is being inserted or 2) how to properly get only one % inserted in the generated spec file?

nfirvine commented 6 years ago

Any chance of getting a maintainer to answer this?

But I can see how hard this would be to support. AFAICT, macros are build-time dependencies, and including them would break the

All the plugins are pure-java and don't require any local native binaries.

promise

oesolutions commented 2 years ago

This ospackage plugin does not use rpmbuild nor spec files and has no links/references to the macros in question. It generates the rpm using pure java via the redline library.