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

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> 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.

At this point, I'll settle for whatever upstream wants - what was
suggested is that rpm defaults to none to preserve compatibility, and
you can set it in a system-wide macro.

Bill