On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for the BSD's? > For Linux in general? For Debian?
I believe their methods of distributing updates securely are significantly more convenient than ours at present. I believe you can checkout the ports tree via cvs over ssh, and so authenticate the server that you are talking to. In our case, you need to verify a gpg signature on a file containing some md5sums which you must then verify by hand (and very few people do in my experience). apt 0.6 is a step in the direction of improving this part of our process. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
