On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:43:36PM +0000, Troels Arvin wrote:
When I install Fedora from a netinstall image:
Given that I initially
- check the SHA256 checksum of the Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23.iso
file
- check the GPG signature of the file which contained the checksum
(the Fedora-Server-23-x86_64-CHECKSUM file)
Then:
How is the authenticity of the rest of the installation sources ensured?
I mean: During the installation, the installer in the netinstall image
will pull a number of packages from somewhere on the web; how does it
insure that the packages pulled are really the unaltered Fedora packages?
Check this out for some reassurance:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998#c54
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader