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How to check what macros to use in jpackage-utils

Since rpm doesn't have an easy way to check for presence of variables/macros in macros files it might be a bit tricky to detect them to avoid that they get redefined.

One way this could be solved is to add a bootstrap option for building jpackage-utils where one checks for macros before adding them to macro file.

example:

... %if %{bootstrap}

1. conflict with itself to avoid usage of own macros

BuildConflicts: jpackage-utils %endif ... if %{bootstrap} %if %{!?distsuffix} echo '%distsuffix jpp' > jpackage.bootstrap.macros %endif %if %{!?mkrel} echo %mkrel() %{1}%{distsuffix} %endif %endif