[Rpm-maint] --resign fails?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Dec 15 16:09:17 UTC 2006


seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> That's fine - but then do we need to have a compiled tool to do that.
> 
> my stated and brazen agenda is to put more and more things into higher
> level languages (python, ruby, perl, java, etc) above the rpm-lib so we
> can gain contributors other than just C programmers. Myself included.

Actually, the more I'm thinking - I think having the 'raw' from in the
executable helps; it's the lowest barrier to use in a recovery environment,
etc. For something like verification, you'd like to have a happy GUI thing
that shows you what's specifically changed rather than just a cryptic
set of flags, so *that's* the tool you build on top of the lib.

Bill



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