Detecting binaries in rpmbuild

[Jos Vos]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Hold on, how do you know that something is a "binary" ?  What if, for
> example, it's an image bitmap?  In the general case it's not possible
> to tell if something is source or binary.

Well, you could run "file" on it to see if it can recognize it as an
object file.  But, like some of the other commentors, I see (too?)
many caveats showing up when actually implementing this idea.

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