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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:39:05 +0200
Rob Kaper <rkaper@ism.nl> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 August 2002 15:35, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> >   if the checksum differ, which it would have, emerge will abort.
> >   although, emerge logs do sound like a very good idea.
> 
> For optimum security, emerge should check checksums from different
> locations. One or two trusted servers (often even the same as the one
> where the files reside, although that might not be true for gentoo)
> can be compromised too easily.
> 
> Rob
> 
actually portage compares to the one in the portage tree, which is
concidered "safe" as its not related to the servers where the binaries
are located.

//Spider


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