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

[Bill Nottingham]

Todd Zullinger (tmz at pobox.com) said: 
> >>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. :)

rpm is somewhat braindead. It only uses %{buildroot} if
there actually is a BuildRoot: line in the spec file.

In any case, https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2007-February/000162.html

Bill