On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 09:01 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Being new at distro SOPs, I don't know if this is an unusual thought. > > With a kernel debug package (or any such debug package) would it be > prudent in todays world to have a checksum or signature process to > assure the downloaded file is untampered with and complete? > > What prompts this is I just downloaded the kernel packages that Johnny > put up. I had not realized they were so large and thought "TG I'm not on > dial-up anymore". > > Anyway, thought I would raise the question. Ran the "rpm --checksig" and it says all is ok. I presume that is sufficient. Should have ran that before posting just because I didn't see any external sum files. > > TIA > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos