[Fedora-packaging] Phase out buildroot?

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu May 21 03:47:00 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:46:18PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Since the rpm version shipped in Fedora 10 and beyond defines a default  
> buildroot, I think we can start phasing out the current buildroot  
> Guideline.  How about adding this to the start of the buildroot tag 
> section?

I'd be concerned about accidentally blowing away people's systems if 
they take a src.rpm from Fedora and try to build it on an older Fedora 
or non-Fedora system.

%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
...

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT




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