On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:49:36 +0000, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> >> Use of %{buildroot} instead of $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>
> > This is on purpose, %{buildroot} is more readable.
>
> Glad someone agrees with me on that.
In case this targets the fedora.us guidelines, they are due to the
following comment from Jeff Johnson (see quoted part at the bottom),
http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-April/001155.html
who maybe was taken more serious than necessary. Though, if %buildroot
were eliminated "without warning" actually, those who build rpms as root
would have fun with the outcome. I can't believe something like that might
be done, considering that most (all?) of the packages in Fedora Core use
%buildroot.
Basically, currently it _does not matter_ whether you use %buildroot or
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT because neither one is deprecated. Just don't use both at
once.
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