Re: ... binary RPM question ...

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:10:54AM -0500, Novick, Randy wrote:

> 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.

I have never suggested to let the source RPM contain actual source
code, but the input files (in your case tarballs with binaries)
are tagged "Source".   The recommendation is to always create source
RPMs, even when the "sources" are in fact the binaries.

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