[packagekit] Signed packages again again

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 06:36:01 PST 2007


Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 18:17 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> In the use-cases PK is designed for, all updates should be "trusted", no ?
>
> This is what I'm thinking also. If the user has installed a bad repo
> file then I think we've lost already.

Well, lost as in we need to provide a useful error message - "Repository
foo is providing package bar, which is not signed with trusted
signature.
<link to more info>

<remove repository>  <cancel>
"

-RN

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Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

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