FESCo Meeting Summary for 2007-02-08

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:14 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:59:26PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > "mktemp" in the spec file BuildRoot tag is getting far too annoying,
> > especially since I do not like anything in my spec file which is not used
> > during my local test-builds, and because failure conditions are not dealt
> > with. I don't know yet what's necessary to block it from becoming
> > mandatory, but it's ridiculous, giving the fact that it will return a
> > fresh tmp dir with every invocation of rpmbuild.
> 
> Check Ville's posting on fedora-packaging on correcting this.
It's not correcting this, it's hack making the symptoms of the mktemp
approach less visible.

>  And FWIW
> I personally think this is the lesser evil. The real "solution" would
> be to leave buildroots w/o any mandatory clause.
=> non deterministic builds

Ralf