On Friday 14 May 2004 17:01, Jon Buller wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:58:57PM -0700, Marc Tooley wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 May 2004 12:18, Love wrote:
> > > > 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; the ubiquity of GnuPG in this case
> > > means that
> >
> > Uh, it's pretty hard to install packages on a system where pkg_add
> > "hasn't been ported or doesn't exist", isn't it?
>
> Unless I have (for the sake of a really sick example) a windows
> box with internet connectivity, and want to pull packages onto that
> box, verify them, and move them off (by sneakernet) to the "N"
> boxes where they are actually getting installed.
>
> Is anyone ever going to want to do something that lame?
>
> Jon

Try to get past your prejudices for a moment, and imagine a scenario 
that doesn't involve your baseless assumptions about me, okay Jon?