[Fedora-packaging] Re: Re: Wrong buildroot ...

[Rex Dieter]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Todd Zullinger wrote:
> [...]
>>> If the packaging committee wanted to make a standard buildroot and
>>> enforce it have the build systems set %buildroot.
>> We looked into that.  I recall there some serious implementation
>> problems with that method.
> 
> Ah, I should've guessed it wouldn't be that simple. :)
> 
> Do you (or anyone else) recall if the problems were...

One biggie: Setting rpm macro %buildroot didn't populate $RPM_BUILD_ROOT.

-- Rex