On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 07:53 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 22:08 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Hey guys, > > It's come to my attention that we don't have a "Packages must be built > > from source, no precompiled binaries" rule in the current guidelines. I > > think this is an oversight as the Binary Firmware section: > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware > > > > implies this for the specific case of firmware. > > > > How about something like: > > > > "Packages must be built from source code. Including pre-built programs > > or libraries is strictly forbidden. A select few exceptions are made > > for binary firmware. Please see > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware > > for details." > > > > And on ReviewGuidelines: > > "Must: The package must be built from source. No pre-built programs or > > libraries are acceptable." > -1 > > > Thoughts, opinions welcome. > > IMO, both rules above are a mistake. > By both, do you mean the sections for Packaging/Guidelines and for Packaging/ReviewGuidelines or the new proposal and the pre-existing BinaryFirmware Guidelines? > In my understanding the original intend was to force "rebuildability" on > LINUX code, i.e. all Linux code to be open-sourced. > > I.e. you'd first have to define what you understand as "Linux code". > > A native firmware to be applied by a running Linux kernel would > definitely qualify as such. But a firmware (as being applied by > emulators) I'd place this under the BinaryFirmware Guidelines so it's not covered in this new guideline. > or foreign libraries (as being required by cross compilers) > are cornercases. > Meaning the libraries built for the foreign architecture? So these do not execute on the host OS? If that's the case, then it could be considered data for the cross-toolchain rather than a library or program. I haven't thought about that case enough to know if that's a good idea or not, though. If it's a special build of a library that the cross toolchain uses to run on the host OS, then I think it does need to be rebuilt from source. -Toshio
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