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Re: speaking in favour of signed Packages files



On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:57:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
 
> I think the simplest way to do that is to make the security key (the one
> wichert holds) very long lasting and have another file in the archive that
> contains the current dinstall key of the day, APT would fetch that file,
> confirm it against the internal `hard-coded' security key and then accept
> it unconditionaly. This only applies to unstable.

Sound good. I am all for it.

cu
    Torsten

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Torsten Landschoff           Bluehorn@IRC               <torsten@debian.org>
           Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member

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