Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:33:35 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> Cc: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320213203.22356C-100000@cyrus.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320211843.5518B-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Derek Flowers wrote: > Why not model it after RPM? If the size and md5 do not match, return an > error. Allow the user to overide the check if they wish to do so. > > Just to get a feel for pkg_add, what are the stpes taken to add the > software? I'm thinking the check could be done in the install script, > assuming it executes a script like make would. Errr. How do you know that the md5 is right? Digital signatures have to come into this somewhere :). Or secure trusted transmission (i.e., the HTTPS idea). Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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