Should Fedora rpms be signed?

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Tue Oct 26 12:45:24 UTC 2004


> How?  Would it make you feel better if the fake updates had installed a
> signature first? Or told you that you had to install a new key from the
> fake site?  The ONLY thing that signatures tell you is that the RPM has
> been signed with a particular key, that's it.

An rpm signed by Red Hat tells me that Red Hat signed it.
No signature == no install.

Many of the releases in Rawhide are not signed, why not?

> The only thing that was shown is that there are potentially people that
> will blindly follow directions from any random e-mail they recieve.
>
> (I leave to others to explain the difference between "Fedora Core" RPMs
> (that are signed) and "Rawhide" RPMs (which may or may not be signed).)
>
> --
> William Hooper
>
> --




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