Re: How to verify debian packages?
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:04:40AM -0800, peterer wrote:
>
> When I manually download debian packages (from
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages), how can I verify that they have not
> been tampered with?
Individual packages are not signed, so you would basically need to
manually repeat the process which APT uses for verifying package
integrity:
- calculate package's MD5 and SHA sums
- look up the package in the Packages file, check they match, calculate
the Packages(.gz) file's sums
- look that one up in a Release file
- verify Release file's signature: Release.gpg
You can find each of these files simply by browsing the archive tree.
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Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/
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