make apt-get stop bothering me about signatures

[Mark Haney]

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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