make apt-get stop bothering me about signatures
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Sep 3 19:04:07 UTC 2008
Paul Johnson wrote:
re is a weakness in apt-get compared
> against yum in Fedora. You seem to say it is necessary for me to
> accept all unsigned packages, rather than simply accepting unsigned
> packages from one particular trusted site.
I'm not sure I understand this statement. You can set the same behaviour
in yum, so I don't think it's inherently safer than apt. I thought
there was a way to edit the sources in Ubuntu to allow unsigned packages
from a particular repo similar to what yum does?
Regardless, if you want unsigned packages, download them, MD5SUM them,
then install with dpkg. That is a safer option in my mind than making
apt insecure.
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