On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:18, Toni Mueller <supp...@oeko.net> wrote: > in the light of DSA 2134-1, I would really like to see an easy way to > manually verify a downloaded package. Currently, neither dpkg, apt nor > aptitude appear to have such functionality, but using apt or aptitude is > not always possible (at least, I often need to bypass them).
Could you elaborate a bit more what you want or what the usecase is? The question is also why you are bypassing APT and co. in the first placeā¦ APT automatically verifies the deb files it downloads and stores them in /var/cache/apt/archives/ if successfully verified (before they are in partial/). aptitude has additionally a download option to download a package to whatever place you are currently in. I don't know if it verifies it, but i hope so. APT in wheezy onwards has this option, too. Is that maybe what you want? Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org