CD authentication (Re: Accepted base-config 2.61ubuntu10 (source))

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Thu Jan 13 14:11:03 CST 2005


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:34:52AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:15:02PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com>
> > Description: 
> >  base-config - Debian base system configurator
> >  tzsetup-udeb - Configure timezone
> > Changes: 
> >  base-config (2.61ubuntu10) hoary; urgency=low
> >  .
> >    * Stop setting APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated to true in lib/menu/pkgsel,
> >      since the CD's Release files are now signed.
> 
> Currently, debootstrap always installed apt first (doesn't it?), and so
> ubuntu-keyring will call apt-key when it's installed, but is it safe to
> depend on that, or should we be more explicit?

Perhaps ubuntu-keyring should depend on apt. Alternatively, I suppose I
could do an apt-key update in base-config.

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]



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