On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:00:19 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > 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. > > Without a unique buildroot for each build, you're back to the problem of > overwriting or picking something up that you didn't put there in the first > place. No, because every spec file does "rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT" at the beginning of %install. All that is needed is making %_tmppath point to the user's private space. And that is highly recommended for many years. > I do believe the patches that were sent upstream to do BuildRoot > internally within RPM make use of unique directories per build. Raises the question why there is a draft on making a specific BuildRoot mandatory? -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
