[GuidelinesChange] Prepping BuildRoot For %install

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 03:44:07 UTC 2007


"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> It is important to properly prepare the BuildRoot in the %install
> section of your package before it is used. Every Fedora package MUST
> have an %install section that begins with either: 
> %install
> rm -rf %{buildroot}
> or 
> %install
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

Just outta curiosity, why is it not considered an RPM bug that every
specfile has to take care of this detail?  Seems like it'd be trivial
to fix it once instead of memorializing this oversight in every package
till the end of time.

			regards, tom lane




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