[Fedora-packaging] buildroot race condition

[Matthias Saou]

Till Maas wrote :

> A lot of specs and the template specs from rpmdev-newspec use following:
> 
> %install
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> # racing time
> mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/bla/foo
> 
> The solution is to make the following mandatory:
> %install
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT # this fails when $RPM_BUILD_ROOT already exists

Other solutions :
- Use mach or mock
- Use a _tmppath inside your $HOME (thus buildroot will be too)

We all do one or the other, or even both, right? :-)

Matthias

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