Re: 2.2_rev3 iso images
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Pavel Epifanov wrote:
> From: Pavel Epifanov <pavel_e@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: 2.2_rev3 iso images
>
> Victor,
>
> Sorry but I tried to do it with ftpmirror. Not a fun at all :((
apt-move is your friend.
> It is _much more_ simple (for me) to download one time per several months
But it opens a security hole. If you do not install security updates
timely, your system can be broken.
> several CDROM images than to keep a mirror on a disk with daily/weekly update.
> And for image we always have checksum. How you are going to verify all packages
> every time (from security point of view!) ?
You can just mirror only sources. They are signed.
Next release of dpkg would allow to sign binary packages too.
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