Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:07:53AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > I wrote a little script that checks what apt things its installing
> > against what the control files of the debs say. I will test it with
> > some more fakes and then file it in the BTS.
> 
> Why would you do this with a script rather than in apt directly?

Because its way easier to put a script into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ that
runs debsigs-verify and compares a few settings from the control file
against the data on stdin for experiments.

MfG
        Goswin