On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:53:33AM +0100, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > Op maandag 03-11-2008 om 13:55 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Orion > Poplawski: > > 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? > > That would kill some packages. Like all compilers that have to bootstrap > theirselves. Should compilers be carrying binary stuff in their source tarballs even for bootstrapping? For MinGW we separated the binary bootstrap stuff into separate *NON-Fedora* RPMs. The idea is that if you need to bootstrap on a bare system, you have to install these *-bootstrap RPMs, and then you can compile the real RPMs (from pure source SRPMS of course), and once these are installed they obsolete the *-bootstrap RPMs. Thus our Fedora SRPMs are pure source, no binaries. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Bootstrapping Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
