Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:29:27 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) Message-ID: <392017D7.C22BDB57@softweyr.com> References: <200005131542.XAA13898@netrinsics.com>
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Michael Robinson wrote:
>
> Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes:
> >> 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.
>
> >From your paen to the benefits of ZIP files, it sounded like you might
> go off and reinvent manifests, signature meta-data, and all the other
> stuff that's in the JAR spec, but in an incompatible, FreeBSD-specific way.
Got a handy pointer to the JAR spec?
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