New subject: [Bug 540523] kernel-vanilla (like MANY packages) build doesn't use %_sourcedir RPM macro as required

19 Sep 2009

      http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540523

           Summary: kernel-vanilla (like MANY packages) build doesn't use
                    %_sourcedir RPM macro as required
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.1
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Development
        AssignedTo: pth@novell.com
        ReportedBy: suse@tlinx.org
         QAContact: qa@suse.de
          Found By: ---

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.9.1.3)
Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

trying to build kernel-vanilla from spec.

Doesn't work **on my system***.

in my /etc/rpm/macros, I have:

%_sourcedir             %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}
----
So sources from different products-releases go into different dirs in Sources
dir -- just like they do in 'build' dir when building

Most products this works fine -- but ones that "assume" they know where to get
other installed sources (like presuming the same dir), fail.
This is a bug -- they should not be touching other installed sources directly,
but should go through the %_sourcedir macro as consistent with the RPM spec.

As a result, any product (and there are a few) that presume the default layout,
will break -- because they are not following the standards.  They need to be
updated -- AS their rpms are "touched" for other reasons (or when a
customer/user) reports a problem) to use the standard macro for determining the
other sources' locations.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup sources for each rpm to be stored in their own dir, just as is done
with
2.  build using system-local-customizable /etc/macros file set to 
3.  %_sourcedir             %{_topdir}/SOURCES/%{name}-%{version}

Actual Results:  
standard rpms fail to build because they don't pay attention to *valid* local
user defined macros.

Expected Results:  
expect released rpm sources to pay attention to the standard rpm macros and
expand and use them as appropriate and not take "shortcuts" and circumvent
standards.

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