[Fedora-packaging] BuildRoot and mktemp -d
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, you wrote:
The following page has been changed by TomCallaway:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GuidelinesTodo
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+ ||ratify ||New Required Buildroot||[wiki:Self:TomCallaway
spot]||2007-02-13||Change required buildroot for new packages to %(mktemp
-d %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX) (old packages/core
merge packages using old buildroot are grandfathered)||
Using mktemp -d in specfiles' BuildRoot means that quite a few stray temp dirs
will start to appear in %{_tmppath}. For example "rpm -q --specfile
foo.spec" and "rpmbuild -bs foo.spec" create them, and nothing cleans them
up
(no, tmpwatch doesn't count) - we probably don't want that.
One way to avoid it is mktemp -ud, but it's more racy than plain -d. I
think -ud would be a better choice nevertheless.