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Improve the download of packages process #55

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diederikdehaas opened this issue May 21, 2014 · 1 comment
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Improve the download of packages process #55

diederikdehaas opened this issue May 21, 2014 · 1 comment

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In update.sh the Packages file(s) are directly downloaded, which we shouldn't do for 2 reasons:

  1. if the master repo changes the available compression formats and a mirror doesn't use --delete you may get an out of date packages file
  2. you have no way of verifying the signature on the release file this way

What you SHOULD be doing is
1: Retrieving Release and Release.gpg (or alternatively you can use inrelease which is inline signed but verifying inline signatures has some security gotchas if you don't know EXACTLY what you are doing)
2: using Release.gpg and the keys from the Raspbian archive keyring to verify Release
3: using Release to check what compression formats are available for the Packages file you want
4: downloading the Packages file
5: verifying the packages file against the checksums in the Release file
@jturner314 jturner314 mentioned this issue Jun 16, 2014
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This issue is now fixed by the release of v1.0.3 of the installer.

diederikdehaas added a commit to diederikdehaas/raspbian-ua-netinst that referenced this issue Jul 21, 2014
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Replaced mirror variable with archive_root and redefined mirror varia…
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…ble.

This is the first step in fixing issue debian-pi#55 to improve the downloading
process of packages.
The variable names will be modelled after
https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat.
hoehnp pushed a commit to hoehnp/raspbian-ua-netinst that referenced this issue Jul 14, 2019
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installer: add RTC support (refs debian-pi#55)
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