[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] rpmbuild: clean up buildroot handling, set a default buildroot

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 15 21:41:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:37 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> > rpm's default is trumped by system wide macro is trumped by local spec
> > defines.
> 
> I would actually like a --defines passed in to rpmbuild to 
> trump all, but this is a whole new kettle of worms to open

That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, is this not the case currently?

Also, in the specific case of buildroot, passing --buildroot should
trump all.

~spot




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