On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug wrote:
You know another thing that would be nice would be if suse set up a way of downloading patches fro say within yast i.e something like you go to update system and then it checks the ftp site and determines which packages need updating preferably only those for which security anouncement have been made some of us really can't go hunting all over their web site for the latest patches.
Well, what I really would like to have is: - A SuSE distribution that comes with the SuSE public PGP key on the CD-Rom (thus regarding it as being trusted). - A YaST-option that allows download and update of SuSE-packages from the SuSE-FTP-server using the rpm -K and checking the PGP signature of the package againts the public key on CD (and the checksum as well) automatically. That would make live much easier and updates much more trusted and it would make the average SuSE installation being more up-to-date and thus (hopefully) more secure. Cheers, Thomas |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Thomas Forbriger email: Thomas.Forbriger@geophys.uni-stuttgart.de | | Universitaet Stuttgart - Institut fuer Geophysik | | Richard-Wagner-Str. 44 D-70184 Stuttgart Germany | | Tel ++49 (711) 121-3593 or 3422 or 3424 or 3590 | Fax ++49 (711) 2361218 | | http://www.geophys.uni-stuttgart.de/thof | | "... there's nothing more bizarre than reality..." (M. Kindermann) |