RE: ... binary RPM question ...

["Novick, Randy" <Randy Novick McKesson com>]

Thank you Hiren and Jos for your opinions.

I understand and appreciate where they come from. I am, however, legally
bound to not ship our source code, in any form, at any time, to any
customer, by any vehicle. The cost to the company, were I to do so,
would be in the billions of dollars, and the cost to my own career would
be incalculable, to say nothing of my own sense of integrity.

Thanks again,
-- R 

-----Original Message-----
From: Hiren Patel [mailto:patelhn telkom co za] 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:55 AM
To: RPM Package Manager
Subject: Re: ... binary RPM question ...


i completely agree so far to Jos's recommendations.
do it the proper way from the outset, you will not regret it later.
best practices don't exist for nothing.

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:37 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:28:38AM -0700, Leland Ray wrote:
> 
> > If you are not using %prep (as itself, or as %setup), the Source: 
> > tags only exist to tell rpmbuild what to use when constructing a 
> > .src.rpm.
> > 
> > So the simple answer to the question is that there are no source 
> > files in the case of constructing a binary rpm; you already have the

> > binaries, and the previous build system gives you the layout.
> 
> Building a binary RPM without a source RPM (in this case meaning an 
> RPM containing a tarball with binaries) is in general a bad idea, as 
> rebuilding the (binary) RPM is not posisble then.
> 
> Using files from outside the SOURCES directory is just "not done"
> when building RPMs and that what's happening here.
> 
-- 

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