Re: %files section of SPEC file

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:46:56PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Yes. That's exactly what buildroot is for. Put this line or something
> similar in your spec file:
> 
>  BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)

Yes, and don't "%define buildroot", as was in your sample code, which
I've never seen used and I don't know what side effects it has, and
don't use some buildroot path below /usr/src/redhat or so, that's the
wrong usage, it should be a tmp path.

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