[Fedora-packaging] Re: Wrong buildroot ...
Fernando Nasser
fnasser at redhat.com
Tue Feb 13 17:00:01 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 10:52, Joe Orton wrote:
>> 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.
>
> +1
>
> We have the spec stubs that have an acceptable buildroot tag for new packages,
> I don't see much value in harping on existing packages for the BuildRoot.
>
So, what is the current procedure. We have 150 Java packages that would
need to have the -%(%{__id_u} -n) appended.
Can the reviewers waive that bit until we have a final (and better)
solution to our buildroot?
Or perhaps we could make it a mass automated rebuild to replace all
BuildRoot: in all packages?
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