Detecting binaries in rpmbuild

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:53:46AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 11:51, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > At least ELF files could be found out.
> 
> So could Windows binaries (executables, DLLs, C# blobs) and Java JARs.

File isn't very good at detecting java code, and it only see jar as Zip
archive, and .class file as data. But using the extension + the fact
that it is a zip archive may be a safe bet.

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Pat