linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: cleanup the rpm buildroot

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Message-ID: <20110525193909.GA23957@dev1756.snc6.facebook.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 12:39:09 -0700
From:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: cleanup the rpm buildroot

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 03:54:58PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:36:19AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> >  echo "%build"
> > +echo 'rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'
> 
> Don't do it, this allows another user to create their or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> and let you package it.

Here's the motivation for the change:

mkspec has a BuildRoot that is deterministic (i.e. the next time I
rebuild I get the same buildroot)

> echo "BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-root"

So if I were to restart a broken build, the build root could have old files
that break the build even after the breakage is fixed.

 -Arun
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