Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

From: Stephen Touset (stephen_at_touset.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: Adam Barton <adambarton@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:43:57 -0500

    On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:19, Adam Barton wrote:
    > Are the packages verified that they are indeed a genuine debian update?

    Others have answered your other questions, so I figured I'd hit this.
    Yes, they are. While each individual package isn't signed, there's a
    Release file downloaded with apt-get update which is. This signed
    release file contains md5 checksums of all the Packages files, which
    contain information about the packages, including their md5s. 

    -- 
Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>



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