On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Craig Foster wrote:
> Probably the same reason why a tarball + scripts was renamed to RPM... An RPM is not just a tarball and scripts renamed. It is a cpio archive of files, plus scripts, a checksum, signatures, permission information, dependency list and who knows what else. Plus it is a source file archive format as well. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
