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Re: Apt-get is insecure



On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:44, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Blake Barnett wrote:
> > Conectiva currently has support for signed _repositories_, as well as
> > signed RPM packages.  Check out their /etc/apt/sources.list for more
> > info on it.  
> 
> That's exactly what I just described.. the Conectiva apt also seems
> to be based on an ancient version, they are at 0.3.19cnc53 while
> apt is up to 0.5.4 now.

Ah.. the way you described it I thought apt would be checking signatures
on packages individually.  Indeed that version looks quite strange...

> 
> Wichert.
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