Subject: Re: adding gpg to src/gnu/dist
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 05/14/2004 16:17:38
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:58:57PM -0700, Marc Tooley wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2004 12:18, Love wrote:
> >
> > I'm sure they can run
> >
> > 	$ nbsvtool verify binary_pkg.sp7 && echo woohoo everything ok
> > 	woohoo everything ok
> >
> > especially when its inside pkg_add so they don't need to run it at
> > all themself.
> >
> > Love
> 
> ... which can't be used on other platforms where nbsvtool hasn't been 
> ported or doesn't exist; the ubiquity of GnuPG in this case means that 

Uh, it's pretty hard to install packages on a system where pkg_add
"hasn't been ported or doesn't exist", isn't it?

Thor