On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > > ftp-admins say about dinstall/archive being able to handle this with > > current scripts.
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:21:10PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Unfortunately current source archives cannot be converted because > signatures are applied to the compressed archives and not their data > :< IMHO we should move to getting widespread bz2 use for source > archives ASAP, it will help slow archive growth [11.1G today!] All that means is that someone who is not the package maintainer would have to sign converted packages. We already do something like this for cross-compiles. It's plausible to consider doing it for the main archive. Then again, the mechanisms need a bit of testing before we think about converting (and that's independent of who signs the packages). -- Raul
