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

[Mark Hatle]

This (for better or worse) is used by people bundling up binary
components into RPM packages.

If you change the behavior.. you'll force them to have to do a copy in
the %install (or before), instead of just providing a %files.

--Mark

Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:42 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> But that's patently dangerous.
> 
> When do we EVER want the default buildroot to be none (which equates
> to /) ? There's never a good case in my mind for that.
> 
> ~spot
> 
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