Detecting binaries in rpmbuild

Tue Nov 4 10:53:46 UTC 2008

On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 11:51, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 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.
> 
> At least ELF files could be found out.

So could Windows binaries (executables, DLLs, C# blobs) and Java JARs.

Regards,
R.

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