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Re: rpm3 package still exist

From: Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu>
Date: Wed 25 Jun 2008 - 19:26:00 CEST
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.64.0806251222380.15868@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jeff Johnson said (at 12:41pm...:

> Could a converter be written if preserving header+payload MD5 was
> not an issue? You betcha. The details necessary to do so I tried to
> send to <rpm-lsb@rpm5.org> this weekend past, but apparently
> e-mail is becoming increasingly unreliable for communication,
> I can't seem to find what I sent in the archives. Oh well ...

So support for signing ancient RPMs is a no-go, but it might be possible
to convert ancient RPMs to a more modern format?

Tim
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