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Re: ssh method in sources.list



On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:25, Debian wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:19, Egor Tur wrote:
> > >     Hi Folks!
> > > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly?
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> I think he is asking for a method which to get his packages using 
> ssh.  To my knowledge there is no such method besides setting up 
> a tunnel.  Maybe Im worng.

Oh.  If you use an authoritative source (like ftp://ftp.us.debian.org)
and since packages are signed and automatically checked during install,
is there any practical need for encrypted downloads?

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