On Tue November 4 2008, 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.
I would more prefer if this was included via an extension in rpbuild, e.g.
like there is a way to enable rpath checking. Also wrt. to rpmlint, how
should this work in rpmlint? Should it run a rpmbuild -bp and then examine
the build directory? It is afaik absolutely valid to have binaries in the
tarball that is included in the srpm and remove them in %prep.
Regards,
Till