Packaging guidelines: buildroot

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Paul Howarth (paul at city-fan.org) said:
>> Of course it is, but that doesn't help all the legacy/other distros that
>> don't set the default in this way. If someone wants to rebuild a
>> buildroot-less SRPM on such a system, they'll need to edit the spec file
>> or their rpmmacros file, which in the case of end users trying to get a
>> package working on their system is a whole extra layer of hassle.
>>
>> I'm all for setting a default buildroot in rpm but think that there
>> should be a substantial grace period before the BuildRoot: tags are
>> removed from packages en masse.
>
> So it could be something that's done in development going forward only;
> I don't see that as a big issue.
>
> You could argue that %clean is superfluous spec file noise as well.

Ah yes, that - while we're at it lets get rid of that noise as well.

A related item, although not quite that straightforward, is 'rm -rf 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT' at beginning of %install. There are some special cases 
where package build is broken in the sense that it installs stuff on the 
build-stage, OOo being a notable example. But those could be handled with 
a special --no-clean flag to %install or something.

 	- Panu -