Packaging guidelines: buildroot

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed May 17 20:02:27 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:33 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Why isn't this the default for RPM, either patched into the default
> > RPM package, or in redhat-rpm-config?
> 
> If you create your spec files from the fedora-newrpmspec tool (from
> the fedora-rpmdevtools package), then it automatically adds that as
> the BuildRoot.

I believe it does in emacs too - though I haven't created a virgin spec
file in emacs in awhile (I just copy the templates
from /usr/share/fedora/ )




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