[ale] deb and rpm

[michael d. ivey]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:46:17AM -0400, Yu, Jerry wrote:
> just curious, what prevent deb to use the blessing of GnuPG?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, michael d. ivey wrote:
> 
> #For a better breakdown, see
> #http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/
> #
> #rpm supports pgp signed packages, deb does not

Really it's a Debian policy issue.  Package signing will be done at a
higher level than the package level.

Actually, IIRC, rpm files don't support PGP either...the rpm _tool_ can
handle signed packages.  Eventually, apt/dselect will have signed package
support, too.

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