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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:55:41 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PKG not quite ready for prime time
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014, at 14:47, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 1:12 PM, scratch65535@att.net wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:57:42 -0500, Brian Drewery wrote:
> > 
> >> find /usr/share/keys/pkg -exec sha256 {} +
> > 
> > No such file
> 
> That's your problem. You are missing the signature fingerprints to
> compare against. As such Pkg is refusing to do anything to prevent MITM
> attacks.
> 
> You are missing this:
> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:03.pkg.asc
> 
> freebsd-update can provide it.
> 
> 

Ahh, good point. This is better advice. Even if your system was
supposedly fully up to date freebsd-update would detect this is missing
and repair it as it was part of an SA. This is better advice than my
manual creation method :-)



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