Gilles Pelletier wrote: > I found out the MD5SUMs are in the package itself but where are the > signatures? I suppose they're in the file that is updated when you do an > update. But where is this file? > > Why are every file in the package md5summed ? Wouldn't a sum on the > whole package be enough? > > I had a bad experience while trying to install guarddog on Knoppix > (installed)this weekend. Synaptic apparently did a full update before > installing guarddog, even chinese keyboards! That took a long time! It > was getting late and the fine print was really, really small. At one > point it asked if I wanted to restart the computer or continue. I was in > no mood to restart and thought "What the heck, I'll see to this later!" > > When I rebooted I had the message "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" > and the system hanged there. I rebooted with a Kubuntu Live-CD and tried > to find an answer to this problem on the net, but in vain. So, I > rebooted and removed savedefault on the boot prompt. The boot hanged > very soon. I put back savedefault, and it finally worked. Lots of > headaches! > > Is there a Linux distro that won't let you continue when you *have* to > reboot? You know, more foolproof.
Well, in my experience with Debian I've only needed to reboot when I upgraded the kernel or upgraded my hardware. Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on debian linux 'sid' 2.6.22 x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve GPG: 0xCACAB118
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