From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 13 9:44:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BF937B50F for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27135; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:44:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05089; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:44:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:44:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005131644.KAA05089@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Robinson Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) In-Reply-To: <200005131542.XAA13898@netrinsics.com> References: <200005131502.JAA04832@nomad.yogotech.com> <200005131542.XAA13898@netrinsics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> Or, heck, why not JAR format, seeing as it's a well-defined standard, does > >> everything necessary, and has multiple interoperable implementations. > > > >FWIW, it's the same format. :) :) > > Not strictly true. All JAR files are ZIP files, but not all ZIP files are > JAR files. True. When I talk about ZIP, I meant to contrast it with PAX and TAR, not talk about details such as manifests, signatures (which are part of ZIP BTW..), and such. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message