From: Warren Young
Date: April 17 2007 12:04pm
Subject: Re: RELEASE: v2.2.2
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Remi Collet wrote:
> 
> My spec file is here : http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/mysql++.spec
> 
> No significant diff.

Okay.  If you're happy, I'm happy. :)

> on my CentOS 4, __id_u is defined by /usr/lib/rpm/*/macros

I probably found the limitation on CentOS 3, which we must still support 
here.

> The recommended values for the BuildRoot tag are (in descending order of
> preference) :
> 
> %(mktemp -ud %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX)
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root

I agree with that guideline: the first is the best.  It works on CentOS 
3, and it's less brittle than the other two.  Let's change it.