On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:38 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote : > Your example is bad. On a default installation, you'll hit permission > problems in /usr/src/ way before hitting them on /var/tmp... Yes. > so > you need the users to define stuff in their ~/.rpmmacros anyway. Why not > just also set %_tmppath there at the same time? Agreed, in a perfect world users should not have to add anything to .rpmmacros, but ... real world is different. > Makes your example work > fine. FYI, I never used /var/tmp for _tmppath when I used to build > on real systems... now with mach and mock, I don't care anymore. If _tmppath would default to ~/<somedir>, or if redhat was shipping an rpm with a safe %buildroot, none of these issues wouldn't have popped up. Current real world is different: Users set %_topdir in .rpmmacros but nobody sets %_tmppath. > I'd really prefer we try to move forward here, i.e. get some comments > on my point n°2 about trying to set a sane (non empty like currently) > default for BuildRoot, so that we can simply forget about it in a few > releases. IMO the answer is clear: We are playing with symptoms. It should be solved inside of RPM. Unfortunately the responsible parties seem to prefer to push this issue to users, instead of solving it. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
