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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:15:54 +0200
From:      Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PKG not quite ready for prime time
Message-ID:  <54385A9A.8020907@sorbs.net>
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Mark Felder wrote:
> 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 :-)
>   

Didn't on mine, I ran into the same problem - though it wasn't a show
stopper for me as I was trying to use my own repo - which also failed
using the docs...  and nothing in the debug gave any clues or additional
information to the problem.  Fortunately, I can read/write code, so I
fixed things myself.

Michelle

(and people wonder why I hadn't switched to pkgng by Sept 1.. but it was
deemed thou shalt use it whether you like it or not)

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/




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