Metadata signing for rawhide

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Aug 6 15:30:28 UTC 2015


On Thursday, August 06, 2015 08:29:50 AM Rex Dieter wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > What makes you think a site that is poisoning or abusing the metadata
> > would not simply run "createrepo" and generate entirely new metadat
> 
> But then it wouldn't match the metalink timestamps or checksums, that Dennis
> mentioned either.  Or am I missing something?

Exactly. it would only bite a user that had switched from the metalink urls 
shipped by default to something else.

Dennis
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