Re: Packages and signatures
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 07:31:43AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Sign the Packages files, which contain the md5sum.
> That could be done on a more secure server than the autobuilder.
The Problem with this is, that the package file is almost never in sync with
the content of the archive. And verifying a once downloaded package is not
posible if there is a change on the ftp server if you dont keep a copy of
the package file with each .deb.
Greetings
Bernd
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