Quoting Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu:
If you're only building half a dozen to a couple of dozen RPMs, this structure works just fine. I released PostgreSQL RPMs for five years doing it that way. At the same time, I built several other RPMsets, both for release and for personal use, small and large packages alike (including kernels for non-Intel archs from source RPM)....
If you're building a distribution, you need something much more sophisticated, for sure. But for a handful, this is the easy way to do it.
I've burned myself once with that directory structure. Two different SRPMs having a helper file with same name. Took me a bit of time to figure out what happened. Spent rest of the afternoon googling around how to make voodoo doll (if however came up with that directory structure felt some sudden pain couple of months ago, it was me ;-)
If all you need is to build a package or two from time to time, I guess it will serve you more or less fine (until you shoot yourself into a foot). You are not going to see the mess. I guess doing "rm *" in SOURCES and SPECS directory from time to time will be normal routine. Hack, Jim says there's even a package in Fedora extras that has some obscure command that basically simply does "rm *". I like to have things a bit more organized even on systems where I build a package or two once a month.
But, it's all personal preference, after all. I guess. So, whatever works for you. Oh, and I mastered the art of making voodoo dolls ;-)
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