RPM submission script

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Nov 7 20:20:00 UTC 2003


> > rfc822 == email.
> 
> Yeah, what he said.  Headers are various metadata, the body is the
> description.  Here's what the last version of my test load looked like:

RFC822 is problematic because \n and ":" can occur as part of multibyte
symbols so dumb tools make dumb errors. It works for email only because
SMTP uses some brain damaged "so dont do that" rules.





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