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Bug#319142: apt: attempts to install corrupted packages



severity 319142 wishlist
merge 319142 250305
thanks

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:44:02AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> asuffield@cyclone:~$ md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-scalable_6.8.2.dfsg.1-3_all.deb
> a525d80fb0df950f4e9b0e3141c63d0c  /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-scalable_6.8.2.dfsg.1-3_all.deb
> 
> Not only is this broken and annoying, it indicates that the security
> checking code is completely non-functional.

apt only verifies the md5sum on download; it implicitly trusts the local
cache.

"apt-get clean" should resolve the issue.

-- 
 - mdz



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