On Thursday 15 February 2007 10:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The RPM maintainer(s) can probably tell you since how long it has been > impossible to build with BuildRoot='/' -- just try it with --buildroot=/ > or a modified spec file. It is a fatal error. It is no theoretical threat > anymore. Maybe somewhere on this world there really is somebody who has > ever before done something stupid with such a buildroot definition. But it > is terribly difficult to find such victims or even bug reports about it. I didn't state I looked for / as a protection item, I looked for / because I know rpm would never let that work, and the package would not build. > During review, using --buildroot (or mock) is recommended anyway, since > the default path may point to a place that is low on free space. /tmp > versus /var/tmp versus %_tmppath. yes, this is known. Again, the issue that was brought up to us was NOT the typical useage case of using mock or whatnot. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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