From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 15 8:27:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACF937B7F6 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08070; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:27:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <392017D7.C22BDB57@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:29:27 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Robinson Cc: nate@yogotech.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New packaging tool (was Re: Applying patches with out a compiler) References: <200005131542.XAA13898@netrinsics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Robinson wrote: > > Nate Williams 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? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message