Re: What is up with BuildRoot ?

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 07:56:13AM -0500, 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.
> 
> 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".

It is conceptually useful to look at it the other way round
-- which is incidentally what actually happens too.

The %files section lists the files inside a package.  The
fact they are installed into a temporal root during packaging
is a techincal detail.  One can imagine arbitrary obscure
packaging methods (e.g., hijacking syscalls and complete
virtualization of the installation), but they would not
change a bit on the concept of %files.

Yeti


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