Re: [racket-users] Upgrading installer verification

2021-04-02 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
There is indeed signing for Ubuntu ppas, but that's specific both to apt and to the ppa system. Sam On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 9:29 PM Sage Gerard wrote: > No, I'm just looking for extra confidence when verifying installers. > > On that note, did Ubuntu require someone to sign packages to distribute

Re: [racket-users] Upgrading installer verification

2021-04-02 Thread Sage Gerard
No, I'm just looking for extra confidence when verifying installers. On that note, did Ubuntu require someone to sign packages to distribute packages via apt? Can that be repurposed here? On 4/2/21 12:26 PM, James Platt wrote: > > Are you bring this up because of the recent rise of dependency

Re: [racket-users] Upgrading installer verification

2021-04-02 Thread Alex Harsányi
Hi James, If you are worried about dependency confusion attacks, you can set up your own package catalog on an internal server, delete the default catalogs from racket and add only a reference just your internal catalog. This way, "raco pkg install" will install all packages (and all their

Re: [racket-users] Upgrading installer verification

2021-04-02 Thread James Platt
Are you bring this up because of the recent rise of dependency confusion attacks? In any case, it would be good to know where Racket stands with that. On Apr 1, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Sage Gerard wrote: > Are there any plans to publish GPG signatures for Racket installers, or > at least