Todd Zullinger (tmz(a)pobox.com) said:
>>If the packaging committee wanted to make a standard
buildroot and
>>enforce it have the build systems set %buildroot.
>
> We looked into that. I recall there some serious implementation
> problems with that method.
Ah, I should've guessed it wouldn't be that simple. :)
rpm is somewhat braindead. It only uses %{buildroot} if
there actually is a BuildRoot: line in the spec file.
In any case,
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-maint/2007-February/000162.html
Bill