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| author | Pavlina Moravcova Varekova <pmoravco@redhat.com> | 2019-09-10 12:11:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> | 2019-11-18 12:46:29 +0200 |
| commit | cb0493a67b35c9dc520afc3f3c5a19d3a1824e07 (patch) | |
| tree | fe820418954f46991eccb99ed236e5104b112653 | |
| parent | e077f749709c8a50a873c0ef10b1b509c2c79102 (diff) | |
| download | rpm-cb0493a67b35c9dc520afc3f3c5a19d3a1824e07.tar.gz | |
Add description of comments in spec documentation
(cherry picked from commit 22c26c7444c32dfe6b75b250b247b5d57f989ba6)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/spec | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/spec b/doc/manual/spec index 4c3c7a9d5..a84047e97 100644 --- a/doc/manual/spec +++ b/doc/manual/spec @@ -214,6 +214,28 @@ can express this as BuildConflicts: gcc <= 2.7.2.1 \endverbatim +\section comments Comments + +Comments in spec file have # at the start of the line. + +\verbatim + # this is a comment +\endverbatim + +Macros are expanded even in comment lines. If this is undesireable, escape +the macro with an extra percent sign (%): + +\verbatim + # make unversioned %%__python an error unless explicitly overridden +\endverbatim + +Another option is to use built-in macro %dnl that discards text to next +line without expanding it. + +\verbatim + %dnl make unversioned %__python an error unless explicitly overridden +\endverbatim + \section conditionals Conditionals RPM's spec file format allows conditional blocks of code to be used |