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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files 
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:16:44 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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In message <199708240303.MAA00881@word.smith.net.au> Mike Smith writes:
: Can you be more specific than "RPM-like"?  Yes in that there will be 
: management tools, no in that they are unlikely to be the RPM tools.

Is there something funamentally wrong with the pkg format that is
already in use for the packages?

Warner