On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Arie Folger wrote: > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 12:46, Eliran wrote: > > As I just saw Chen Levy's message at whatsup.org I found that KDE3.0.2 rpms > > packages are here, available from metalab: > > > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Redhat-7.3/ > > Thanks, Eliran. > > clueless question: If you don't know who compiled the packages, and they are > in the contrib directory (which, AIUI, has looser upload policies), how do > you know the packages are trustworthy? Quite different from widely > distributed packages such as RedHat iso images, for which you can find > signatures on many independent hosts, and on RedHat's own servers.
It means that those packages don't have the reputation [read: QA] of redhat. So I figure that we'll have to wait for some brave people to try those packages on their machines. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
