Commit b5e8db8f14d tuned the SPEC file so that libvirt daemons restart on package upgrade. In order to do that it added a bunch of parametrized macros using the %global directive. This caused a problem when running RPM builds on CentOS Stream 8 resulting in: error: Too many levels of recursion in macro expansion. It is likely caused by recursive macro declaration. error: Macro %libvirt_daemon_perform_restart failed to expand error: line 1275: %global libvirt_daemon_perform_restart() \ if test %libvirt_daemon_needs_restart %1 \ then \ /bin/systemctl try-restart %1.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \ fi \ %libvirt_daemon_finish_restart %1 There are 2 important differences between %global and %define directives: 1) %define is local-only and does have scope - in reality though, its scope is apparently not really enforced because it behaves exactly the same way as %global 2) %define is evaluated at the of use while %global is evaluated at the time of definition The latter and the fact the macro is parametrized is the reason why the RPM builds fails on CentOS. Strangely enough this only happens on CentOS Stream, but not Fedora (which is also the main proponent of replacing %define with %global). Anyhow, replacing %global with %define makes the rpmbuild to pass on both and along with package upgrades. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- libvirt.spec.in | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 624b0e0302..1725e5eb14 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -1259,28 +1259,28 @@ mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/systemtap/tapset/libvirt_qemu_probes.stp \ # raising the test timeout VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1 %meson_test --no-suite syntax-check --timeout-multiplier 10 -%global libvirt_daemon_schedule_restart() mkdir -p %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt || : \ +%define libvirt_daemon_schedule_restart() mkdir -p %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt || : \ /bin/systemctl is-active %1.service 1>/dev/null 2>&1 && \ touch %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart-%1 || : -%global libvirt_daemon_finish_restart() rm -f %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart-%1 \ +%define libvirt_daemon_finish_restart() rm -f %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart-%1 \ rmdir %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt 2>/dev/null || : -%global libvirt_daemon_needs_restart() -f %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart-%1 +%define libvirt_daemon_needs_restart() -f %{_localstatedir}/lib/rpm-state/libvirt/restart-%1 -%global libvirt_daemon_perform_restart() if test %libvirt_daemon_needs_restart %1 \ +%define libvirt_daemon_perform_restart() if test %libvirt_daemon_needs_restart %1 \ then \ /bin/systemctl try-restart %1.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \ fi \ %libvirt_daemon_finish_restart %1 -%global libvirt_daemon_systemd_post() %systemd_post %1.socket %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1.service +%define libvirt_daemon_systemd_post() %systemd_post %1.socket %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1.service -%global libvirt_daemon_systemd_post_inet() %systemd_post %1.socket %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1-tls.socket %1-tcp.socket %1.service +%define libvirt_daemon_systemd_post_inet() %systemd_post %1.socket %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1-tls.socket %1-tcp.socket %1.service -%global libvirt_daemon_systemd_preun() %systemd_preun %1.service %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1.socket +%define libvirt_daemon_systemd_preun() %systemd_preun %1.service %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1.socket -%global libvirt_daemon_systemd_preun_inet() %systemd_preun %1.service %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1-tls.socket %1-tcp.socket %1.socket +%define libvirt_daemon_systemd_preun_inet() %systemd_preun %1.service %1-ro.socket %1-admin.socket %1-tls.socket %1-tcp.socket %1.socket %pre daemon # 'libvirt' group is just to allow password-less polkit access to -- 2.31.1