On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:19:25 -0300, Sergio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've read in Packaging Guidelines that:
>
> "Fedora (as of F-10) does not require the presence of the BuildRoot
> tag in the spec and if one is defined it will be ignored. The provided
> buildroot will automatically be cleaned before commands in %install
> are called."
>
> However if I run rpmdev-newspec myprog.spec it creates the tag:
>
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
>
> So what is the right approach about it?

You may delete that BuildRoot line and the "rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT" at
beginning of %install and the default %clean section. At least since
Fedora 12 they are not needed anymore, for sure. Don't worry about F-10
as it's even older.
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