Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (68 mails)

[andreas.hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

> If you want to clean it, better do:
> 	%install
>         rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>         mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> 	mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr ... or make install

Or even more trivial:

rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*

Also note that %clean is not the same as %install. It becomes increasingly popular these days to remove rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT from %clean.

Maybe some day rpm will make this obsolete, but right now it does not (yet) and other than within %install, doing this within %clean does _not_ open a race condition. Not doing this causes your package to leave stale tmp files behind, preventing other users from rebuilding the same package on the same machine.

Andreas Hanke
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