[Fedora-packaging] Re: Wrong buildroot ...

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:52 +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:05:07AM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:41:44AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:53 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > > e) True arguments are that
> > > >    obscuring the buildroot for the sake of an extremely rare
> > > >    corner case (several users building the same package on the
> > > >    same system w/o chroots) implies fixing it for far more not
> > > >    corner-cases like building i386 and x86_64 packages
> > > >    simulataneously. So the `id -nu` part is far less important
> > > >    than adding the target arch, but that was silently forgotten by
> > > >    racor
> > > > 
> > > Is your suggestion to add arch to the buildroot?
> > 
> > No, my suggestion is to loose up on requirements on buildroots. There
> > is no known problem ever caused by choosing a "wrong" buildroot even
> > by novices, and we're definitely over-engineering in fixing stuff that
> > never broke.
> 
> I completely agree with that.  Unless the buildroot is picked by 
> mkdtemp() you can't really *guarantee* avoidance of conflicts.  If you 
> want a guarantee then rpmbuild should be fixed to ignore BuildRoot and 
> use mkdtemp() instead.  Standardising an inadequate workaround and 
> having packagers go through fixing N hundred spec files to match seems 
> like a waste of time.

Wrong, it would be one single sed invocation.

Ralf