On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 11:06 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
That being said, let me take your points one by one:
- Replace something that worked well for years. What was the
mechanism previously that let me verify that the updated kernel RPM on Mirror X was a bit-identical copy of the one actually published by Red Hat? I know how to verify ISO's but know of nothing that verifies a package was not tampered with after being placed on a mirror.
This is an old snapshot of Rawhide but serves well nonetheless:
nils@gibraltar:/misc/scratch/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS> rpm -K rpmdb-fedora-1.91-0.20040325.i386.rpm bash-2.05b-38.i386.rpm rpmdb-fedora-1.91-0.20040325.i386.rpm: sha1 md5 OK bash-2.05b-38.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
See? I can verify that the bash package is signed with one of the keys I have in the keyring. Granted that I can't see (here) which key it was signed with
Actually, you can, using 'rpm -Kv'. :-)
-- Elliot