Patch for adding-application portion of Ubuntu docs
Jim Campbell
jwcampbell at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 03:04:48 UTC 2007
On 6/15/07, Simon <simon80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't like the phrase "For security reasons", since it doesn't
> actually explain why someone would want to do this. Here's my attempt
> at writing the paragraph:
>
> <step><para>
> Most software repositories use a GPG key to digitally sign the
> files they
> provide, which makes it easy to check that the files haven't been
> tampered
> with since their creation. In order for apt to be able to check
> this, you
> need the public key that corresponds to the signatures. The key
> should be
> available for download on the repository's website.
> </para>
>
Thanks, Phil and Simon. Simon's changes are fine with me. I'll add them to
what I had entered, and will resubmit the patch. I have to run for now, but
will submit the patch tomorrow.
Thanks again,
Jim
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