On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:17:57 -0500, Andre Robatino wrote: > James Antill wrote: > >> IMO, as has been said before, if you have a delta method that doesn't >> produce the exact same bits at the end ... you've probably failed. It >> might seem like a good idea, but even if you go to the extreme lengths >> needed to make it just for yum ... things like reposync won't be able >> to use it, Eg. >> >> http://james.fedorapeople.org/python/delta-rpm-dir.py > > I realize there's a lot of stuff sitting on top of RPM that depends on > how it works currently, but in terms of correctness, it still seems to > me to make more sense to sign the uncompressed data, since that's what > actually gets used, and it would avoid issues like > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4224 which will have to be dealt > with periodically as long as compression continues to improve. This is what 0install uses: http://0install.net/faq.html -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | IRC: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
