On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:52, Emmanuel Moll wrote: > I am quite newbie with the whole signing the packages thingy. How do I > check all the packages signature and (if failed) how do i resign the > packages with a given signature???
You don't really want to resign anything, the objective in checking the signature is to verify the integrity of the package and to insure that the packages you have are exactly identical to the packages that reside at Mandrake corporate. That's what Gpg signatures do; they verify that the download gave you a package that's identical to the source, or what the author had whenever he signed it. Authenticity. The authenticity thing would be my assurance that the CD I was buying had a set of packages exactly indistinguishable from what Mandrake has, and would therefore be an incentive to order and pay for a set of CD's. It takes people time to read HOWTO's and learn the curve necessary to build installation CD's properly, alot of people don't need to be doing this unless they are going to be doing it alot, and these days more than any other, time is money. Creation of Mandrake installation CD's with the latest update packages already integrated fills the market gap for those people who are busy. But only with assurance of authenticity. > Cheers, > > Manu > > > P.S: Good feedback. I agree with getting new distro CDs every so often > and i am willing to do it (fast net connection helps) every so often (so > expect Manudrake 9.2.2 etc...). i just need a bit of help setting it all > up (e.g. signing packages)... which packages to ad etc... > P.P.S: I am thinking of adding PLF's dvd packages, what do you think?? I think it's a good idea overall, but I would keep one version of installation cd's that were "vanilla", that is indistinguishable from Mandrake's set except of course for the integrated updated packages. Then for a few bucks more you could offer the enhanced version with maybe ALL the PLF stuff. Since you are considering that I also suggest that you include Vincent Danen's set of indisposable RPM's at rpmhelp.net. I don't know about anybody else but I absolutely have to have that stuff. LX -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
