PKG not quite ready for prime time

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Sat Oct 11 12:08:58 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:15:54AM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> Mark Felder wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014, at 14:47, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> >   
> >> On 10/10/2014 1:12 PM, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:57:42 -0500, Brian Drewery wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> find /usr/share/keys/pkg -exec sha256 {} +
> >>>>         
> >>> No such file
> >>>       
> >> That's your problem. You are missing the signature fingerprints to
> >> compare against. As such Pkg is refusing to do anything to prevent MITM
> >> attacks.
> >>
> >> You are missing this:
> >> https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:03.pkg.asc
> >>
> >> freebsd-update can provide it.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Ahh, good point. This is better advice. Even if your system was
> > supposedly fully up to date freebsd-update would detect this is missing
> > and repair it as it was part of an SA. This is better advice than my
> > manual creation method :-)
> >   
> 
> Didn't on mine, I ran into the same problem - though it wasn't a show
> stopper for me as I was trying to use my own repo - which also failed
> using the docs...  and nothing in the debug gave any clues or additional
> information to the problem.  Fortunately, I can read/write code, so I
> fixed things myself.

Thanks for creating an PR.
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