Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
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> Sam Tygier wrote:
>> it looks like they have got the security side covered.
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>> "Now, one might think this could potentially pose a security threat
>> as everyone can offer and distribute debs without any
>> auth
There is another problem with apt-zeroconf... it relies on Avahi. Avahi
has lots of environments that it does not work in. In my office, the
machines are not seeing each other. When we had a meeting at the Google
(Sketchup) offices in Boulder, Avahi did not work correctly their
either. I don't
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:53:14PM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> If this was actually checked against a local web of trust (like
> OpenPGP or Gaim-OTR keys or else) it may become interesting. But who
> uses that "safely" ? :)
All packages downloaded by APT are authenticated using PGP keys provi
Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> apt-zeroconf is actually a replacement for apt-cacher, not a
> complement to it, according to its site. I think we already know the
> answer to "enabled by default" autodiscovery / other networking
> services. I would have some trust issues using apt-zeroconf, but
> that's
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Sam Tygier wrote:
> it looks like they have got the security side covered.
>
> "Now, one might think this could potentially pose a security threat
> as everyone can offer and distribute debs without any
> authentication whatsoever. This is not th
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Sam Tygier wrote:
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> could apt-zeroconf[0] be installed and enabled by default.
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> "distributed apt-cacher for local networks implemented in Python.
> It's called apt-zeroconf since we use avahi for automatically
> finding other apt-zeroconf ins
Kevin Fries wrote:
> I am not sure it needs to be moved. But, what would be totally cool is
> if the installer scanned the local network on install and configured
> apt-cacher in sources.list instead of the normal repos by default when
> if finds a server. That would be a terrific usability upgrad
