On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:54:14PM -0500, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: > I believe signatures are checked after packages are rebuilt from > deltas. Therefore, if your delta is compromised, the resulting > package won't validate with the signature.
Excellent. I also notice you use the word "deltas", plural, which leads me to the next question :) Will deltas be combined by pacman, or will only ever a single delta be used? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
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