content/hints/lua-macros-in-rpm-specfiles.rst

   1 Using Lua macros in an RPM specfile
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   4 :date: 2015-07-12
   5 :tags: hint,lua,rpmbuild,rpm,specilfe
   6 :fcategory: hints
   7 :author: Jude N
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   9 I've found using Lua macros in rpm spec files to be pretty useful.  I haven't found many examples of their use online, so here's how I ended up using them.
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  11 I had a situation where I needed to make a subpackage from all the files in a number of different subdirectories.  The structure of the files in the subdirectories was fixed,
  12 but the number of subdirectories could change over time, and I didn't want to have to update the spec file each time a new subdirectory was added or removed.
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  17 .. _lua macros in rpm spec files: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/RpmLua