Re: what is that .sig file
From: Alex White (prata_at_kuei-jin.org)
Date: 04/29/05
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:46:00 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
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lin q wrote:
| Hi,
| I am trying to download gdb from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/ and
I see
| for each gdb zip file, there is a .sig file with the same name.
|
| What is that .sig file used for?
That is the signature of the file you are downloading. So that you
can verify that you A. have a good download, and B. verify that the
downloaded file you have is in fact untampered with. Or otherwise
not what you expected.
HTH
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