On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:02 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le Mer 9 mars 2011 22:38, jan.klepek a Ãcrit : > > > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:27 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote: > >> remaking a tarball is generally only required if it includes items > >> that > >> > aren't redistributable. > >> > >> > > > > Ok, so exe file in source tarball could stay (as it is not used by build > > and it is just silently ignored and not used in final rpm). > > The intent of removing the files in %prep is to make sure it's not used one > way or the other during the rpm build process Yes, I understand why it should be removed during %prep, however in my case %build is empty and %install consists of several copy commands and desktop file install. So I don't remove such file during %prep as I see it as useless as there is guarantee that it is not used anyhow during %build/%install. And my question was rather if such file could be present in source tarball from upstream/repository, I'm not arguing about removal of such files during %prep. Jan -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
