Re: What is up with BuildRoot ?

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: What is up with BuildRoot ?, Jos Vos said (at 10:18am on...:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:59:55PM -0700, Dinh Tien Tuan Anh wrote:
>
> > I guess that's why RPM prepends the BuildRoot to the %file section
> > automatically. Totally make sense
>
> That's the wrong way of looking at it, there is nothing prepended.
> The %files section contains the target pathnames of the package and
> the target root tree is stored under BuildRoot while building the
> package.

Jos-

Can you explain more why it's wrong?  While what Anh said may not be
*exactly* what's happening, it's conceptually useful.  I'm very intrigued
to find out why you think what he said is "wrong".

Tim
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