[TriLUG] Debian vs Mandrake vs Redhat vs . . .

lfwelty lfwelty at redback.com
Tue Mar 11 10:01:39 EST 2003


Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 00:48, Ben Pitzer wrote:
> 
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> Obviously you have a big misconception about what's going on with apt
> for RPM.  I would NEVER use it on my servers if it weren't checking the
> GPG signatures and assuring that the packages were the official ones
> from Red Hat Inc.
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> --Jeremy

/admitted-newby-w-apt

What apt repository do you use?
Is it kept up to date w/ rh's updates?

How do you check the GPG sigs?

- for example:
'apt-get -d install kernel#<kernel-version>'

  just downloads the package w/o unpacking;

http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

discusses this gpg, but I still seem boggled.

Would you mind spoon feeding me?

I'm used to:
lfwelty-laptop:rh80-18> rpm -K kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0.i686.rpm
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0.i686.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK


Thanks,

F.


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