On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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. It's probably a good idea to spot some common binary traps, such as ELF objects/executables, COFF binaries (for Windows/MinGW), jar files with bytecode, and Mono assemblies with CIL code. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
