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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:58:14PM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>=20
> I'm here.  My interest, as I tried to articulate in a previous post,
> is to develop some kind of trusted mechanism with strong authenticators
> for binary updates with a high degree of granularity.
>=20
> I don't think the package mechanism will work.

I don't think that the existing package framework will work, but if we
get the pkgAPI right there would be nothing stopping someone from
writing a new package module for it for dealing with binary upgrades.

Joe

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