RPM submission script
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Nov 7 21:43:21 UTC 2003
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>:
> > Not a problem. I'll just specify that the input is expected to be
> > UTF-8 and screw all that multibyte crap. World's going that
> > direction anyway.
>
> ugh - a lot of data in rpms is not utf-8 happy. Often in latin-1 or
> beyond that in the encoding.
Again, that's OK. The stuff in the message doesn't include the RPM itself,
One of the fields is optionally an associated-file-resource URL that could
*point* at an RPM, but that's a different matter.
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