Re: packages without .md5sums file?
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:07:37PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> No. .md5sums are the wrong approach for this. The right approach is
> a combination of signing packages themselves, and dpkg generating (multiple)
> checksums on the fly when installing a packages. The signing part is
> implemented already, the second is not currently.
Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own
checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles.
Thanks,
Marcus
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