On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 14:31 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote: > On 9/15/07, Jonathan Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is probably a stupid question. I'd search the entire archive, but > > there's no easy way to do that using mailman's very basic archive. I am > > using someone else's PPA by adding a deb line to my sources.list. I was > > able to install the packages just fine, but I can't find any way to add > > the author's public GPG key to my apt so that it can authenticate them. > > Are we supposed to just use them unauthenticated? > > This was originally a "feature". This was supposed to be a way to > separate PPAs from the official Ubuntu archives. I think *something* > should be done as Ubuntu developers are already getting bugs filed > based on PPA packages. I expect to see a lot more in the future and I > suspect that a significant number of Ubuntu users may not know the > difference between a PPA and the Ubuntu archive, especially since > Launchpad is the official development tool. > > Are there any plans to do something about this issue?
That seems strange to me, since one has to manually add a line to sources.list to use a PPA. Why are people saavy enough to find the PPA pages, add the apt lines, but not realize they're not using officially supported packages? I never got the impression that PPAs were anything other than personal as in the name. -- Jonathan Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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