On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:22:59 -0500, Jesse Keating 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. The spec file would fail to build the src.rpm beforehand. ;o) Unless the packager used --buildroot to build it. Back to the drawing board... -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
