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.
Andrew.