fonts-rpm-macros

#28 Unable to set %{SOURCEn} macro to fontlicenses
Closed by pnemade. Opened by tagoh.

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Upstream archive is sometimes missing a license file and may have it as an extra file in srpm for a workaround.
Although we should try to contact upstream to include it there, writing "%global fontlicenses %{SOURCEn}" for the time being looks intuitive to me. However it doesn't work as expected:

error: File not found: /var/home/tagoh/rpmbuild/BUILD/twr-mint-mono-fonts-0.0.1-build/BUILDROOT/var/home
/tagoh/rpmbuild/SOURCES/LICENSE

Apparently fonts-rpm-macros is simply adding _sourcedir to the license file. Should it stop adding _sourcedir if %fontlicenses has the absolute path and it is same to _sourcedir (to avoid a security risk)?

This can be worked around by cp %{SOURCEn} . at the setup time and just put a filename only in %fontlicenses though.

I feel this is something that could be handled by fontrpmspec perhaps?

But perhaps some macro could also handle it, dunno

I think use cp is the usual idiom for this, yes.
Edited by petersen

I don't mind either but if we decide it is not a bug, we should raise more user-friendly error message for this not like just the above. it is quite hard to see what was wrong. e.g. fonts-rpm-macros doesn't accept the absolute path for fontlicenses etc. or even good to say about %{SOURCEn} macro directly.
Edited by tagoh

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/i18n/fonts-rpm-macros/issues/28

Please continue any further discussion there.

Metadata Update from @pnemade:
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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