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Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number



On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:19, Adam Barton wrote:
> Are the packages verified that they are indeed a genuine debian update?

Others have answered your other questions, so I figured I'd hit this.
Yes, they are. While each individual package isn't signed, there's a
Release file downloaded with apt-get update which is. This signed
release file contains md5 checksums of all the Packages files, which
contain information about the packages, including their md5s.

-- 
Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>

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