Jon Ciesla wrote: >> I just discovered in a package I'm putting through review that the >> upstream tar ball contains some pre-compiled binaries. It seems like >> this would be a good check for rpmbuild to run automatically before the >> %build step. Thoughts? > > Fine, as long as it doesn't prevent building rpms from precompiled > binaries. I mean, other than compilers, we really shouldn't do it in > Fedora, but taking away that functionality would prevent companies > building some rpms for internal use. I agree that rpmlint sounds like a > great place for this. Hold on, how do you know that something is a "binary" ? What if, for example, it's an image bitmap? In the general case it's not possible to tell if something is source or binary. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
