Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:28:54 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980321132448.8704A-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320213203.22356C-100000@cyrus.watson.org>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Derek Flowers wrote: > > > Why not model it after RPM? If the size and md5 do not match, return an > > error. Allow the user to overide the check if they wish to do so. > > > > Just to get a feel for pkg_add, what are the stpes taken to add the > > software? I'm thinking the check could be done in the install script, > > assuming it executes a script like make would. > > Errr. How do you know that the md5 is right? Digital signatures have to > come into this somewhere :). Or secure trusted transmission (i.e., the > HTTPS idea). Sorry, forgot to mention that RPM uses PGP fingerprints also. The MD5 can be stored on ftp.freebsd.org where everybody can check it. ---------------------------------------- Derek Flowers djflow@erols.com http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, circa 1981 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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