Re: plugin rpm macro

Gerry Reno wrote:
> James Antill wrote:
>> Gerry Reno <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> I looked at the preupgrade plugin 'whiteout'.  And in the code I see
>>> where it gens a macro '_dependency_whiteout' and then appends a list
>>> of 'package>requires' strings to it.  My question is, for testing, can
>>> I put this macro into /etc/rpm/macros and then will yum/rpm use it?
>>>     
>>
>>  AFAICS, rpm will use it. See:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=_dependency_whiteout
>>
>>   
> Thanks.  In looking at whiteout.py it seems that even if it does not 
> find any whiteouts in any of the repos it still creates an empty macro 
> which overrides the one I put in /etc/rpm/macros so I cannot do any 
> manual testing.
>
I thought disabling the whiteout plugin would allow it to work.  But no 
dice.  When I do an rpm --eval on the macro it shows it but it does not 
seem to use it.  yum update still shows the depsolving problem.  This is 
with F11 rpm 4.7.0.

Regards,
Gerry

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