Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2016-05-18 Thread Bottom Post
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 06:07:00PM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Well; you are right Patrick; [ ... snip ... ] Other thing that Patrick does right, is making it possible to read in discussion order Please reply below the text

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2016-05-18 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Well; you are right Patrick; perhaps I should do something to awake debcheckroot from its slumber! If I am not the one who can build a respective infrastructure around the project (i.e. checksums for all Debian packages) and develop the code forth then someone else would do it as there seems

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2016-05-18 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Elmar Stellnberger: > Dear Debian-Security > > Having just released debcheckroot I wanna shortly present you my new tool: > It was originally designed as a replacement for debsums and has the following > qualities: > * full support of Debian repos reading /etc/[apt/]sources.list to fetch >

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
The tool is now ready to be downloaded at http://www.elstel.org/debcheckroot. Feedback will be highly appreciated! Am 28.01.2014 11:40, schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: Dear Debian-Security Having just released debcheckroot I wanna shortly present you my new tool: It was originally designed as

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
.* ** *From:* Elmar Stellnberger estel...@gmail.com *To:* debian-security@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Saturday, April 5, 2014 5:39 AM *Subject:* Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released The tool is now ready to be downloaded at http

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Hi Elmar! This is a most interesting tool! The opensuse logo on http://www.elstel.org/debcheckroot/ is confusing, since this is a Debian tool. This might scare of interested people. As Debian package headers do not use to be signed I think you are mistaken here or maybe I misunderstand. When

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 05.04.2014 15:23, schrieb Patrick Schleizer: Hi Elmar! This is a most interesting tool! The opensuse logo on http://www.elstel.org/debcheckroot/ is confusing, since this is a Debian tool. This might scare of interested people. Oh, what an embarrassing mishap! Many Thanks for your evidence

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 16:52 +, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Am 05.04.2014 15:23, schrieb Patrick Schleizer: As Debian package headers do not use to be signed I think you are mistaken here or maybe I misunderstand. When you have a Debian medium you trust (such as a Live DVD from a trusted

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Ah; sometimes you oversee what is not hard to see; I am just updating the web page for debcheckroot; thx kind regards, Elmar. Am 05.04.2014 17:00, schrieb Adam D. Barratt: On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 16:52 +, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Am 05.04.2014 15:23, schrieb Patrick Schleizer: As Debian

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Hi Patrick! Hi Adam! Am 05.04.2014 15:23, schrieb Patrick Schleizer: This approach seemed futile to me. At least for now. There are too many files, that are automatically generated created by postinst scripts. For example /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/**/__init__.pyc gets automatically

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Elmar Stellnberger: As Debian package headers do not use to be signed I think you are mistaken here or maybe I misunderstand. When you have a Debian medium you trust (such as a Live DVD from a trusted source), we can regard keys in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ and /etc/apt/trusted.gpg as trusted.

Re: debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: This approach seemed futile to me. At least for now. There are too many files, that are automatically generated created by postinst scripts. For example /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/**/__init__.pyc gets automatically generated. Even

debcheckroot v1.0 released

2014-01-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Dear Debian-Security Having just released debcheckroot I wanna shortly present you my new tool: It was originally designed as a replacement for debsums and has the following qualities: * full support of Debian repos reading /etc/[apt/]sources.list to fetch checksums online * it can check a