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

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:19 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:12 -0500, Jason Corley wrote:
> > So compatibility should only be maintained when someone at Red Hat
> > says it's worth keeping.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't go that far. If a small group of people are reliant
> upon a program's bad behavior, should you fix the behavior to be sane
> and make life much simpler for the majority of users, or ignore the bad
> behavior to keep the small group happy?
> 
> In this case, fixing the bug so that the default buildroot is not / is
> trivial for people dumping binary bits into RPM.

The point is not that we won't ship with a default buildroot, but that
it should not be hard coded within the source.

I don't have any real objection to rpm.org releases shipping with a
buildroot defined in macros, but I do think we should avoid overly
putting policy in the code base.

We can have a released default, just please not in the code.

Paul