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On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:15 -0400, Butterworth, John W. wrote: |
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> How can I verify that the installed packages on a Gentoo system came |
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> from the same source that was on a main rotation mirror and/or |
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> “blessed” by the Gentoo development team? |
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> By verifying the checksum located in /var/db/pkg/$APPNAME/CONTENTS am |
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> I only confirming that the source was the same as that which was |
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> downloaded from the mirror? |
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> I guess what I’m getting at is how can I be sure I can trust a |
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> mirror? |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any insight provided, |
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It really depends on your level of paranoia. Ultimately it can't be |
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trusted at all. |
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If you really want to be sure then just the source/manifest from your |
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"trusted" mirror and compare. |
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