This week's Debian Weekly News[0] has an item. [0] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/05/
> New Debian Archive Key. > > Anthony Towns announced[1] the archive key[2] for 2003, which is > used to sign the Release file for the main, non-US and security > archives. This key can be used with apt-check-sigs[3] to protect > your use of apt-get from malicious or exploited mirrors. There are > other tools based on this that may be of interest, see Google or the > debian-security mailing list archives. Colin Walters and a couple of > others have been working on integrating this into apt properly. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0301/msg00009.html > [2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2003.asc > [3] http://people.debian.org/~ajt/apt-check-sigs Does anybody know how to use this? Is there documentation somewhere? BEGIN RANT. I keep getting this feeling that if I'd just sit down and devote five years of my life to reading every scrap of Debian information on the web, I'd stop feeling completely lost in this distro... For example, an item in last week's Debian Weekly News[4] linked to this message[5]. > Every user of testing knows that he must read > debian-security-announce and if needed install fixes from unstable > since it can take an arbitrary amount of time until security fixes > from unstable enter testing (most likely none of fixes from the last > 70 security advisories is in testing). That is demonstrably a false statement, since I was a counterexample until last week. I didn't even know there was a debian-security-announce mailing list. (Since then, I've subscribed to all the debian-*-announce lists. Maybe it will help.) But the thing is, I really want an OS that lets me use the computer to do neat stuff, not an OS that lets me spend every second of spare time tracking down obscure but necessary system administration bother, just to keep my boxes up to date and secure. [4] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/04/ [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01644.html END RANT. Thank you. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
