On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:52:27PM -0500, Sam wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Just thinking about this.
> >
> > RPM is distributed under the GPL. That means there's nothing stopping
> > anyone from modifying the source to do whatever checking needs to be
> > done in order for someone to rpm --verify a /var/qmail package?
> >
> > Why isn't that the answer to distributing qmail binaries?
>
> Why should someone muck around with RPM just to satisfy the distribution
> requirement of one package? RPM is good enough already for thousands of
> very different software packages.
That's not an answer, that's an evasion. That gets nothing done.
Just like me responding "qmail is good enough already for thousands of
very different installations, so why doesn't RedHat change RPM?"
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if the binary file editor will
break rpm --verify, then why not fork and extension of rpm which will
fix that? It's open source. It's allowed. That's the whole argument
behind open source.
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John White
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