[Bug 170506] Review Request: grepmail

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Oct 12 16:39:43 UTC 2005


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On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:15 -0400, bugzilla at redhat.com wrote:
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> Summary: Review Request: grepmail
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170506
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> ------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2005-10-12 12:15 EST -------
> Just a comment:
> %{_bindir}/find ...
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> is pretty much free of sense. %_bindir is a user input parameter to rpmbuild,
> not an rpm-internal constant (%__chmod etc. are rpmbuild internal constants).
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> Try rpmbuild --define '_bindir /tmp' to experience the difference.
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> I strongly recommend to use find or /usr/bin/find instead.

I second this - prefering find to /usr/bin/find

imho when a system utility is used to build/install - unless the path is
needed (ie /usr/sbin/foo) then it should use whatever comes first in the
path of the rpm builder (or rpm's defined path)




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