Detecting binaries in rpmbuild
Debarshi Ray
debarshi.ray at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 07:29:11 UTC 2008
>> Is it not better to do it in RPMLint with appropriate exceptions?
> Perhaps it would be a better option to separate this test from rpmlint
> (without stretching definitions of 'lint'). Payloading binaries isn't an
> RPM problem per se but more of a Packaging definition issue and,
> probably optional hence.
RPMLint does check for strange file permissions within the tarballs
which are part of the SRPMs. eg., non-644 bits for a C/C++ files.
Cheers,
Debarshi
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