Detecting binaries in rpmbuild

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 06 November 2008, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> >> Is it not better to do it in RPMLint with appropriate exceptions?
> >
> > Perhaps it would be a better option to separate this test from rpmlint
> > (without stretching definitions of 'lint'). Payloading binaries isn't an
> > RPM problem per se but more of a Packaging definition issue and,
> > probably optional hence.
>
> RPMLint does check for strange file permissions within the tarballs
> which are part of the SRPMs. eg., non-644 bits for a C/C++ files.

Not really, IIRC.  It just checks permissions of packaged files, and some 
source files in tarballs often propagate to -debuginfo packages with 
those "strange" permissions intact, and /that/ is something it'll warn about.