No, it's fine. APT does automatic verification of signatures. We can publish 
the key over HTTPS, or to a keyserver. It also lets you configure automatic 
updates.

X

On 01/08/10 15:40, Romain Dalmaso wrote:
> This is risky. Unlike updating over the freenet network, it's not
> secure at all and it's not automatic.
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Ximin Luo<infinity0 at gmx.com>  wrote:
>> On 31/07/10 18:32, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>>>
>>> The fundamental, irresolvable problem with worrying about the FHS is that
>>> we
>>> need to be able to update our own executable code. Hence Freenet is
>>> installed under a single user, binaries, logs, and everything else. This
>>> is
>>> true now by accident or design on unix, and it will be true on Windows
>>> very
>>> soon as well because of nasty installer issues with trying to make it a
>>> service.
>>>
>>
>> I can go set up a freenet APT repository, it's really simple and requires no
>> extra daemon, just static HTTP files. (After we get this directory structure
>> sorted out and some build-deb scripts, of course.) That will take care of
>> the auto-update issue on Debian and Ubuntu.
>>
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