- Specify BuildRoot in the rpm spec to work around some kind of

bug/problem causing rpmbuild to use "/" as the BuildRoot on CentOS 5. Fixes #191. Confirmed working on CentOS 5.7 in a vm.
jordansissel · Mar 30, 2012 · d588300 · d588300
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diff --git a/templates/rpm.erb b/templates/rpm.erb
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Release: <%= iteration or 1 %>
 Summary: <%= description.split("\n").first.empty? ? "_" :  description.split("\n").first %>
 BuildArch: <%= architecture %>
 AutoReqProv: no
+# Seems specifying BuildRoot is required on older rpmbuild (like on CentOS 5)
+# fpm passes '--define buildroot ...' on the commandline, so just reuse that.
+BuildRoot: %buildroot
 
 Group: <%= category %>
 License: <%= license %>