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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 16 16:36:44 UTC 2007


Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said: 
> As of the specfile buildroot taking precedence over the system
> buildroot, I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand, it is logical
> and intuitive if it does, on the other hand the system's definition
> will be better in most cases.

Well, having the macro take precedence over the spec file is
the expected behavior now (modulo bugs), and it's how most build
systems expect to work. So I think it would need to stay that way.

Bill



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