# Pull out some info we will need from rpm
    my %rpmrc;
    foreach my $line (split(/\n(?=\S)/, `rpm --showrc`)) {
        next unless ($line =~ /^-\d+:\s+([\w\-]+)\s+(.+)$/s);
        $rpmrc{$1} = $2;
    }

# Fill in any easy-to-parse macros
    my $done     = 0;
    my $overload = 0;
    until ($done || ++$overload > 50) {
        my $count = 0;
        foreach my $key (keys %rpmrc) {
            $count += $rpmrc{$key} =~ s/(\%\{([\w\-]+)\})/if ($rpmrc{$2}) { $rpmrc{$2} } else { --$count;  $1 }/sge;        }
        $done = 1 if ($count == 0);
    }
    $done = $overload = 0;
    until ($done || ++$overload > 50) {
        my $count = 0;
        foreach my $key (keys %rpmrc) {
            $count += $rpmrc{$key} =~ s/\%\{\?([\w\-]+)\s*:\s*(.+?)\}/$rpmrc{$1} ? $2 : ''/sge;
            $count += $rpmrc{$key} =~ s/\%\{!\?([\w\-]+)\s*:\s*(.+?)\}/$rpmrc{$1} ? '' : $2/sge;
        }
        $done = 1 if ($count == 0);
    }