On 9/15/07, Jonathan Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Often times people just copy-n-paste stuff into their sources.list and the may take anything with launchpad.net in the URL to be official. -Jordan -- launchpad-users mailing list launchpad-users@lists.canonical.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
