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Add description of comments in spec documentation

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Pavlina Moravcova Varekova 2019-09-10 12:11:39 +02:00 committed by Panu Matilainen
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@ -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