On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:47:22PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:11:13 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:38:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > > > > I'm wanting to install a package from outside Debian, Symfony. > > > > It's > > > > a PHP framework. However, I got scared because of all the > > > > warnings that aptitude showed me. Do I really need to be > > > > careful of installing something like this? > > > > > > Since you haven't told apt that you trust this source, then yes. > > > You > > > always have to be careful installing something from an untrusted > > > source. I've never heard of Symfony but then I don't do PHP. > > > > > > Do you trust the souce for Symfony? Does its repository have an > > > apt keyring? If you trust it, install the keyring and then apt > > > will trust it. > > > > but be sure to verify the keys on that keyring.
I have a local repo in my sources list, how do I add keys to it and then to the apt key list ? in my sources.list.d/local.list deb file:///exports/shared/repository binary/ deb-src file:///exports/shared/repository source/ find /exports/shared/repository -type d /exports/shared/repository /exports/shared/repository/binary /exports/shared/repository/source and I use this to update the files #!/bin/bash cd /exports/shared/repository dpkg-scanpackages binary /dev/null | gzip -9c > binary/Packages.gz dpkg-scansources source /dev/null | gzip -9c > source/Sources.gz Alex > > > > Raquel - aptitude showed you those warnings because it couldn't > > verify the signatures on the package you were trying to install, > > if there were any signatures at all. If you aren't equipped with > > the skills to verify to your own satisfaction the safety of a > > package, then you should stick with debian packages and not move > > outside that. > > > > A > > > > Another thought. This same piece of software can be installed via a > *.tgz file and it can be installed using Pear. Maybe one of those > methods would be better. > > -- > Raquel > ============================================================ > This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as > the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man. > --William Shakespeare, (Hamlet) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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