On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:14:40 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > "mktemp" in the spec file BuildRoot tag is getting far too annoying, > > especially since I do not like anything in my spec file which is not used > > during my local test-builds, and because failure conditions are not dealt > > with. I don't know yet what's necessary to block it from becoming > > mandatory, but it's ridiculous, giving the fact that it will return a > > fresh tmp dir with every invocation of rpmbuild. > > Check Ville's posting on fedora-packaging on correcting this. And FWIW > I personally think this is the lesser evil. The real "solution" would > be to leave buildroots w/o any mandatory clause. mktemp -ud also returns a new path with every invocation. A buildroot that becomes a moving target (even when overriding %_tmppath) is impractical for --short-circuit builds or anything where you would want to examine the buildroot contents. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
