RPM submission script
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 7 21:54:35 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:43, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 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.
no I mean things like:
descriptions
vendor names
packager names
summaries
filenames
shall I continue? :)
-sv
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