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

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 15 19:41:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:35 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Paul Nasrat (pnasrat at redhat.com) said: 
> > Could you supply an updated patch in a new thread.
> 
> Will do. Note that setting it in the macros by default means that
> the behavior will change on any package that includes BuildRoot
> (as the macro value will be used over that.)

Is this really what we want?

IMHO, it should be:

rpm's default is trumped by system wide macro is trumped by local spec
defines.

~spot




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