I propose the following changes:
- Use an admon/important template to highlight the differences in EPEL 4 & 5
- change %{_optflag} to %{optflag}, which seems to be right according to
rpm --eval
and was mentioned in the discussion page of the original site - Do not mention Fedora 10 or older, since it is EOL
- Do not call Fedora 11 "Fedora Core 11", Core and Extras merged
Valid RPM Macros
Here are the definitions for some common specfile macros as they are defined on Fedora 11 (rpm-4.7.0-1.fc11). For definitions of more macros, examine the output of "rpm --showrc
". To see the expanded definition of a macro use the command rpm --eval "%{macro}"
. Note that neither command will take into account macros defined inside specfiles, but both will take into account macros defined in your ~/.rpmmacros
file and macros defined on the command line.
Keep in mind that some of these macros may evaluate differently on older Fedora or EPEL releases.
Macros mimicking autoconf variables
%{_sysconfdir} /etc %{_prefix} /usr %{_exec_prefix} %{_prefix} %{_bindir} %{_exec_prefix}/bin %{_lib} lib (lib64 on 64bit systems) %{_libdir} %{_exec_prefix}/%{_lib} %{_libexecdir} %{_exec_prefix}/libexec %{_sbindir} %{_exec_prefix}/sbin %{_sharedstatedir} /var/lib %{_datadir} %{_prefix}/share %{_includedir} %{_prefix}/include %{_oldincludedir} /usr/include %{_infodir} /usr/share/info %{_mandir} /usr/share/man %{_localstatedir} /var %{_initddir} %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d
RPM directory macros
The macros are usually used with rpmbuild --define
to specify which directories rpmbuild should use, it is unusual to use them within SPEC files.
%{_topdir} %{getenv:HOME}/rpmbuild %{_builddir} %{_topdir}/BUILD %{_rpmdir} %{_topdir}/RPMS %{_sourcedir} %{_topdir}/SOURCES %{_specdir} %{_topdir}/SPECS %{_srcrpmdir} %{_topdir}/SRPMS %{_buildrootdir} %{_topdir}/BUILDROOT
Build flags macros
%{_global_cflags} -O2 -g -pipe %{optflags} %{__global_cflags} -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 # if redhat-rpm-config is installed
Other macros
%{_var} /var %{_tmppath} %{_var}/tmp %{_usr} /usr %{_usrsrc} %{_usr}/src %{_docdir} %{_datadir}/doc
Reference
Here are macros from other distributions to aid you in package conversion: