Package XYZ is not signed

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Tue Oct 30 18:25:04 UTC 2007


Am Sonntag, den 28.10.2007, 13:40 -0700 schrieb Andrew Farris:
> If you keep an eye on where your packages are coming from, even for rawhide,
> then you can be sure that only authorized maintainers have put them into the
> system (control which mirrors you're pulling them from).  Actually signing the
> package from the build system would change very little other than insure that
> the mirror you're downloading from did not bring in a new package that doesn't
> belong.

It worries me massively, from a security perspective, that someone from
inside Red Hat would say something as wrong as this.

> 
> So as it stands, you have to extend trust to the maintainers, and the mirror.
> You can pick which mirror you trust.
> 




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