RE: ... binary RPM question ...

[Hiren Patel <patelhn telkom co za>]

the source and binary rpms are separate, you could still use Jos's
suggestions, create a source and binary rpm, distribute the binary to
customers and keep the source rpm undisclosed.

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:10 -0500, Novick, Randy wrote:
> 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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