On Tue, 25 March 2003 10:59:54 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote:
>
> > And I have a hard time to think of a real-world application where you
> > don't want to unpack but need to verify the signature.
>
> My real world includes downloading a bunch of files and burning a CD to
> move them to a test environment which is completely private and has no
> external connections of any kind. I don't do all files that way, of
> course, but that is the way at least half of the 2.5 kernels I've used
> were moved to a machine which was non-production.
Real world always wins over imagination. I'll shut up now. :)
Jörn
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