Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:48:10 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us>, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <19980321154810.61297@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199803211144.UAA08075@nomad.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 08:44:38PM %2B0900 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320211843.5518B-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320213203.22356C-100000@cyrus.watson.org> <19980321035120.19492@follo.net> <199803211144.UAA08075@nomad.mt.sri.com>
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On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 08:44:38PM +0900, Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm right now looking at adding support for the JAR manifest standard > > to pkg_add. The only loss I can see is that until somebody re-write > > the signing software you'll have to have Java installed to sign > > packages. > > Hmm, I'm sure you could figure out how to do this w/out the JDK > installed. Sure. However, I'm not planning on initially spending time on anything but checking the signatures; as long as a way exists of signing those files, it will be usable (and IMO useful :-) > The only difference between a JAR file and ZIP file is the MANIFEST. Well, the manifest actually doesn't have to be stored in a ZIP file - they are pretty explict about trying to make it a generic standard. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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