[Fedora-packaging] Re: BuildRoot

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 1) The current "preferred" BuildRoot which executes "id -u" isn't
> useful [...]

How about the following patch (yet untested) to redhat-rpm-config in
devel and thus FC6/RHEL5? It would eliminate some issues and allow for
better planning:

diff -rud redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43.org/macros redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43/macros
--- redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43.org/macros 2005-08-17 02:27:33.000000000 +0200
+++ redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43/macros     2006-07-25 16:38:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -156,3 +156,18 @@
 
 # Disable lookups
 %_hkp_keyserver  %{nil}
+
+#==============================================================================
+#	These are the default values that can be overridden by other
+#	(e.g. per-platform, per-system, per-packager, per-package) macros.
+#
+#	Path to top of build area.
+%_topdir		%(test `%{__id_u}` = 0 && echo %{_usrsrc}/redhat || echo $HOME/rpmbuild)
+
+#	Directory where temporary files can be created.
+%_tmppath		%(test `%{__id_u}` = 0 && echo %{_var}/tmp || echo $HOME/rpmbuild/tmp
+
+#	Configurable build root path, same as BuildRoot: in a specfile.
+#	(Note: the configured macro value will override the spec file value).
+
+%buildroot		%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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