[TriLUG] Fwd: Trust issues with RH and Debian package managers

[Donald Ball]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mike Johnson wrote:

> > This is a serious issue for Linux users and I believe it should have been
> > addressed years ago.  That said, now is not too late and definitely not too
> > early.  I look forward to seeing this feature in all future releases of the
> > major Linux distributions.
>
> It has already been addressed by various distributions.  Red Hat
> addressed it when they started signing their packages, yet you
> dismissed this with a wave of your hand.

i think the point is that up2date didn't warn him that the signature was
missing, and it probably should.

- donald