-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello!
I am pleased to announce GNU swbis 0.463, available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/swbis/ The project home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/swbis The files to download are: swbis-0.463.tar.gz swbis-0.463.tar.gz.sig md5: f420528e6613c649bf0240e83cbaa055 swbis-0.463.tar.gz sha1: 980c136823230d0df0df538468125a0ea497d84b swbis-0.463.tar.gz This release is a minor bug fix release. There were fixes to swpackage, and fixes to RPM format translation for problems that occurred when the RPM package had escape sequences in the file name. Also, the self tests were updated to work with recent GNU/Linux distributions. What is swbis? - -------------- Swbis is a free implementation of the Posix software administration standard. It intends (eventually) to provide all the features of, for example, 'rpm' and 'dpkg', while maintaining usefulness to free software developers and system administrators of large heterogeneous networks. Free software developers can use swbis because a swbis package is an ordinary looking tarball just like GNU software packages. It even provides a program, 'swign', that uses 'swpackage' and 'tar' in a manner where the generated tarball is created entirely by GNU 'tar'. System administrators can use 'swpackage' to construct run-time GPG signed packages with a 'postinstall' control script and deliver it to any GNU/Linux (or BSD or U*ix) host on the network via 'ssh' using the 'swinstall' command. [and swinstall does not have to be installed on the remote host]. Although the 'swverify' utility is alpha and not complete for installed software, the distribution (package) GPG signature remains valid for installed software and can be verified by the 'gpg' program directly from the catalog which is a ordinary file system directory hierarchy. If you are interested in reading more, the manual is at http://www.gnu.org/software/swbis/manual.html Thanks, Jim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRcvQaoGkgF2ZNLERAmMnAJwO0sRCPN2uQf4jBJ8MejGtjS1RzwCfX7u3 2glyo85X29dIwwlhqgw/rT8= =rrve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
