Detecting binaries in rpmbuild

[Jon Ciesla]

> 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.

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