On Sun, 28 Jul 2007, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"DP" == Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
DP> My proposal is to implement this where it belongs (in rpmbuild),
I can't disagree with that.
DP> and issue warnings (and ignore) any attempt to set the build root
DP> or to rm -rf it from within the spec.
I must disagree with that; these statements will be required for
compatibility with old versions of RPM (see EPEL4) for many years to
come. I don't particularly want to fork a different version of my
specfiles when there's no need.
Welcome to world of rpm: people want progress but no change.
See the discussion regarding setting a sane default buildroot:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2007-February/000162.html
Lots of talk, no real consensus was reached because changing it one way or
the other breaks compatibility for somebody.
Maybe these things would need a new incompatible "spec 2" format (one that
actually has defined grammar etc) that fixes various insanities in the
current non-format and forces people to fork the specs for good :)
- Panu -
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