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

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:51:44PM -0500, Donald Ball spoke thusly:
> i think the point is that up2date didn't warn him that the signature was
> missing, and it probably should.

It does if you enable signature checking in the up2date preferences. 

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