[Fedora-packaging] Re: BuildRoot

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jul 25 21:01:37 UTC 2006


Le mardi 25 juillet 2006 à 22:52 +0200, Axel Thimm a écrit :

> But to come back to Ville's observation: It means that one shouldn't
> mix %{buildroot} and $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in the same specfile, which
> hopefully noone is doing.

This part is already in the guidelines but you're the first to find a
reason why one is better/safer than the other.

IMHO that's reason enough to make %{buildroot} mandatory in Fedora specs
(will simplify the guidelines too). Hope the packaging dark cabinet is
reading this. 

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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