On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> : Is there any compressed archive format that is efficiently updatable?
> 
> Zip is about the closest you can get, since it has an independent directory
> list and per-file compression, but if you have to add archive members, it
> will create a temp file and "mv" it back into place.  (There isn't an
> "in-place modify".)

Is the ZIP encyption trustworthy enough? maybe we could implement some pkg
signing that way?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>