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6 rbm_templates - A description of the rbm templates
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9 All configuration options are actually templates. So you can use
10 template directives in any of the option. There are a few exceptions
11 however, for the options that are needed to process templates, so they
12 can’t be templated themself. The following options are not templated :
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16 If you want to make other options not templated, add them to the notmpl
17 config option, which is an array. All the other options are
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20 The template are made using perl Template Toolkit. You can read more
21 about the syntax on the Template Toolkit website.
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23 From any template, it is possible to include other template files using
24 the INCLUDE directive. The template files are added to the directory
25 projects_dir/project where projects_dir is the projects directory (the
26 default is projects) and project the name of the project. Other
27 template files can be added in the directory projects_dir/common, to be
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30 There are different template files : By default, the following template
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33 • the rpm spec file template, named project.spec (replacing project
34 with the project’s name). This is used when you use the rpmspec,
35 srpm rpm, or build commands. This creates the rpmspec option. If
36 you don’t want to use this file, just replace the rpmspec option by
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39 • the build script template, named build. This template is used to
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41 command. This creates the build option.
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43 The following variables can be used in the template files :
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46 contains all the configuration. You can view the content with rbm
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50 This variable is a function reference. Instead of accessing the
51 config variable directly, you can use the c function which will
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53 configuration then the global configuration and return the first
54 defined one. The syntax to use this function is c('option-name').
55 Optionally it can take as a second argument a hash table containing
56 options to override temporarily (in template processing).
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59 • no_tmpl : set this to 1 if you want to disable template
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62 • error_if_undef : set this to 1 (for default error message) or a
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70 This variable is a function reference. It is the same as c, except
71 that it takes a project name as its first argument. This is useful
72 if you want to access the config value of an other project than the
73 current one. The command line options are not used in this lookup.
74 The current target is used, unless an other target option is
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79 The name of the project for which we are processing a template.
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82 The project’s configuration. This is a shortcut for the value of
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86 The destination directory, where the resulting files will be stored
87 at the end of the build. This is mainly useful in build script
88 templates, and probably not useful in package template files.
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91 A function that you can use to exit with an error. The first
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96 A function taking a command line as argument, to be executed in the
97 sources tree. The output of the command is returned, if the exit
98 code was 0. If the argument starts with #, then it is considered to
99 be a script, which will be written to a temporary file and
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101 $options hash, used to override values of git_url, hg_url, fetch,
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105 A function to return an absolute path. It takes a path as first
106 argument. If the path is already an absolute path, then it returns
107 the same thing. If the path is a relative path, it returns the path
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109 configuration file is located. Optionally it can take a second
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113 A function taking a template text as argument, and returning it
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117 A function to quote strings to use them as argument in command
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121 A function to compare two version numbers. It returns -1, 0, or 1
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127 A function returning the sha256 digest of its argument as an
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131 A function returning the sha256 digest of a file as an hexadecimal
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135 A function to parse a path. Returns an array containing the
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140 A hash containing all the process environment variables.
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153 This package is built for distribution [%
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156 You know that the remote_ssh option uses the ssh_host option, and you
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167 You want to be able to define the package revision number using a file
168 in the sources tree of your software. In the config file, you can use
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177 [% IF versioncmp(c('version'), '0.3') > 0 -%]
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