Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (68 mails)

[Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:31:29PM +0100, andreas.hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > If somebody has created $RPM_BUILD_ROOT as a symlink that points to 
> > your home dir, then
> > 
> >   rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > 
> > will be save, as it either removes the symlink or fails if you don't 
> > have permission to remove it, but
> > 
> >   rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
> > 
> > will "clean up" your home dir.
> 
> If somebody has created $RPM_BUILD_ROOT as a symlink, %build will correct that securely:
> 
> + /bin/rm -rf /var/tmp/gnucash-docs-2.0.1-build
> ++ dirname /var/tmp/gnucash-docs-2.0.1-build
> + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp
> + /bin/mkdir /var/tmp/gnucash-docs-2.0.1-build

Well, if you rely on this then there is no point in the above command anyway.

Robert

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Robert Schiele
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