spot asked me to draft something in the wiki about pushing all responsibility to (grown-up) packagers while still presenting a couple of sane buildroots as a guideline. The outcome is on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/BuildRoot: > [[Anchor(BuildRoot)]] > == Build root tag == > > The ''Build``Root'' MUST be below %{_tmppath} and MUST use %{name}, %{version} and %{release}. It also may make use of ''mktemp'' since this is guaranteed to exist on any system. Other than that packagers are free to use any sane ''Build``Root''. > > The ''recommended'' values for the ''Build``Root'' tag are (in descending order of preference) > {{{ > %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX) > %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n) > %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root > }}} At one point, this was a mandatory value, but it is now left to the packager. On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > So we voted on a new *mandatory* buildroot. By now people saw that the > previous *mandatory* buildroot entered the guidelines and started > blocking new packages requiring the old *mandatory* buildroot. > > I don't know what fesco did last week on ratifying or not the new > buildroot, and either way people will think differently on any single > buildroot. Perhaps buildroots are the most unimportant piece of s**t > with the most polarized parties. > > Now who's idea was it to have a *MANDATORY* buildroot at all?</rhetoric> > > Most of the FPC are fed up and have often stated that the buildroot > guidelines should be simple "If it works, have it". > > Plain and simple: > > Request for voting on dropping the *mandatory* from the guidelines > and explicitely cast it into a *suggestion* > > +1 > > The first other five positive voters get a free beer when I meet > them (we never said that committee members could not be bribed, or do > we need a guideline for that? ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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