[Rpm-maint] Automatic BuildRoot by default?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

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. :)

~spot