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Re: security update script?



Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 10.25 schrieb Erno Kuusela:
> hello,
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> | > i mean one that you can feed a DSA mail to, and it would check the
> | > pgp signature and download the updated packages and verify the md5sums.
> | 
> | Well that's what apt-get update;apt-get upgrade is good for.
> 
> actually, it does not check the signature & md5sums.

True, but if someone hacked into the security server he'll modify the
signature and md5sums,too.

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