Re: [Fedora-packaging] Re: Request to drop %(%{__id_u} -n) in preferred buildroot

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 08:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
> I would agree, if it weren't for undefined behaviour at best when
> someone uses the buildroot-less specfile on a system not supplying a
> default buildroot.
>
> In the worst case you could end up with an empty buildroot and
> %install/%clean operations on the buildroot could suddenly really
> happen in the live filesystem.

Have you tried (within a chroot) to build a package w/out a chroot on our 
modern rpm?  (I haven't yet, other things to do today...)