On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:30:12 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Why do we have to make each of our users find a solution to generate > this from a _local_ mirror (or the system's .deb archive which > shoulnd't be trusted in the event of an intrusion) when we could do > this ourselves and provide the results? I have no objections to Debian providing md5sums, as long as we do not ignore our users running Debian in low disk space environments -- like zaurii. As long as these files are not in a deb, and are not mandated to live in /var/lib/dpkg/info; feel free. > Notice that I'm not necessarily depending on the local md5sums, I'm > taking a file provided by a vendor, in this case, Debian. Let's call > it Contents-xxx.md5sum.gz. This file is available for download from > all Debian mirrors, signed with the Release key and provides these > three fields for every file in a single Release: OK. manoj -- panic: kernel trap (ignored) Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C