On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:07:37PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > No. .md5sums are the wrong approach for this. The right approach is > a combination of signing packages themselves, and dpkg generating (multiple) > checksums on the fly when installing a packages. The signing part is > implemented already, the second is not currently.
Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
