[Yum] plugin rpm macro

[Gerry Reno]

James Antill wrote:
> Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> 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.

Regards,
Gerry

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