[Rpm-maint] Automatic BuildRoot by default?

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 19:48:37 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:38 +0200, Pixel wrote:
> > "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> > > The only reason we use mktemp in there is because we 
couldn't make rpm
> > > code changes to use the native glibc functions. As to rpm
> > > --short-circuit, well, I honestly think we should think long and 
hard
> > > about whether we want to keep it around.
> >
> > well, as for mandriva, i think it is mandatory to keep a similar
> > feature. and since nowadays distributions use build systems, i 
really
> > don't see how this can be dangerous. the usefulness to 
adjustate
> > %install and %files on big pkgs is quite obvious (my example: 
gcc)
> >
> > but i'm not against slowly obsoleting --short-circuit which has 
some
> > drawbacks in favor of the following (that mandriva inherited from
> > conectiva)
>
> Hm. FWIW, my opinion is that people shouldn't be short-circuiting 
builds
> like you're describing, it only opens the door to non-reproducable
> builds. Obviously, others disagree with that. :)
>
That'd be the analogy of always requiring people to do 'make clean' 
before running 'make' on some project they're working on..
Rather non-sense or oblivious about the relevant details, but 
whatever, --short-circuit saves my day every now and then several 
times a day without it affecting any packages of mine in the distro..


-- 
Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
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