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Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@SPAM.quake.ca> writes:

> On Friday 14 May 2004 12:18, Love wrote:
>> Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@SPAM.quake.ca> writes:
>> > Our common users, on the other hand, are probably not even
>> > aware that openssl can be used in a package-authenticating manner,
>> > let alone how to invoke or interpret the necessary commands.
>>
>> I'm sure they can run
>>
>> 	$ nbsvtool verify binary_pkg.sp7 && echo woohoo everything ok
>> 	woohoo everything ok
>>
>> especially when its inside pkg_add so they don't need to run it at
>> all themself.
>>
>> Love
>
> ... which can't be used on other platforms where nbsvtool hasn't been 
> ported or doesn't exist

Come on, porting nbsvtool, less then 400 lines of code, is hardly an
issue. OpenSSL might be harder, but I would think it runs on all platforms
pkgsrc supports.

Love


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