Re: What is up with BuildRoot ?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:

> 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".

Hehe, I almost replied with a similar comment as Jos.

All depends on your POV, kinda like daylight savings time.

For a build POV, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is an added prefix to the install path.

For a install POV, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is a deleted prefix from the  
staging path.

The rest is just the way human brains work. ;-)

73 de Jeff