[Fedora-packaging] Re: BuildRoot

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:46 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:

> How about the following patch (yet untested) to redhat-rpm-config in
> devel and thus FC6/RHEL5? It would eliminate some issues and allow for
> better planning:
This would need quite an amount of testing.

> diff -rud redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43.org/macros redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43/macros
> --- redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43.org/macros 2005-08-17 02:27:33.000000000 +0200
> +++ redhat-rpm-config-8.0.43/macros     2006-07-25 16:38:53.000000000 +0200
> @@ -156,3 +156,18 @@
>  
>  # Disable lookups
>  %_hkp_keyserver  %{nil}
> +
> +#==============================================================================
> +#	These are the default values that can be overridden by other
> +#	(e.g. per-platform, per-system, per-packager, per-package) macros.
> +#
> +#	Path to top of build area.
> +%_topdir		%(test `%{__id_u}` = 0 && echo %{_usrsrc}/redhat || echo $HOME/rpmbuild)
> +
> +#	Directory where temporary files can be created.
> +%_tmppath		%(test `%{__id_u}` = 0 && echo %{_var}/tmp || echo $HOME/rpmbuild/tmp
> +
> +#	Configurable build root path, same as BuildRoot: in a specfile.
> +#	(Note: the configured macro value will override the spec file value).
> +
> +%buildroot		%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}

- Doesn't work in your several %arch's case.
- Do %_topdir/%_tmppath in .rpmmacros still work?
- How does this interact with *.spec files containing hard-coded 
  %Buildroots?
- Do %name, %version, %release always expand correctly (Rpm suffers from
  a bug, where at least %name or %version (I don't recall exactly)
  occasionally is not being expanded correctly)?

Ralf