My Apologies. Point understood. Regards
Narendra Diwate On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:39, VIGNESH PRABHU <stove311...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Narendra Diwate < > narendra.diw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not sure how that will help. If someone has been able to upload or put a >>> compromised package on a site, he can also put a md5sum for it. When you are >>> downloading from a untrusted place, everything there can be suspect. >>> >> Well Nigel actually was suggesting you to check the md5sum from the real > source or from the main repository. The idea is that though it is advisable > to download packages from nearest mirror, it is always good to confirm that > the package uploaded by the mirror is a genuine package. > > -- > Regards, > Vignesh > B. Tech in Computer Science > National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur > > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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