Re: Should Fedora rpms be signed? Yes...resign and rsync...

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Le vendredi 29 octobre 2004 à 21:59 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch a écrit :
> The comment about rsync is interesting.
> 
> The question may be: 
>     How does rsync like a package being signed or better yet resigned
>     at some later time?
> 
> As I understand it the gpg signature is a modest structure and
> resigning an rpm does not so badly mess up a file that rsync cannot
> optimize the change as long as the keys have the same length.
> 
> To test I picked on something big and network rude to change and test.
> Thus...
> 

The problem is that all changed rpm would be check again at the next
invocation of rsync. When there is about 1 Go of unsigned rpm, this mean
that the client _and_ the server should read 1 Go of data (even if a
small part of the data have changed). The mirror don't like this.

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