[Fedora-packaging] Re: Refining today's "don't touch system fs" guideline

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:58 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:27:51PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:11 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > > doesn't make a real difference.
> > > 
> > > It does. ;)
> > > 
> > > The former installs into $RPM_BUILD_ROOT without doing "rm -rf
> > > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT" first. It would need to do this at the beginning of
> > > %build (!).
> > hastly off-head scribbled pseudo-code", you know?
> > 
> > The real world case in FE, I am facing this issue with, does have an
> > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in %build ;)
> 
> And you consider that proper? This package should not be allowed to
> pass the review!
Why? What is the problem?

Ralf