Re: Fwd: creating RPM files

Yannick Menager <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:06:00 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jrpm.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hmmm.. Well, right now we're not producing anything, so the hard part is 
still to do :(

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> The payload is easy, its the header that's hard.
>
> If you're producing headers reliably, you're most of the way there.
>
> Hint: try for rpm-3.0.x headers, where a header is a simple container 
> for tags.
>
> Insuring that the header can be sorted into a blob on which digests 
> and signatures
> remain invariant is much much harder, and is not worth the effort for 
> a first effort imho.
>
> Point me at jrpm produced *.rpm's and I'll tell you what's busted.
>
> 73 de Jeff