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Re: debcheckroot v2.0 released

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Yes, that is a very good idea!:

* debcheckroot with sha256-lists is considerably faster because it does not
need to download and unpack all packages

* unknown/forgotten packages of elder versions could still be checked
because the sha256sums are not forgotten

* You can generate sha256sums incrementally with debcheckroot, i.e. extend
an existing list only for the new packages

Great! I remember there were semi-public sha256-sum file lists for Windows.
Why not have this for important Linux distributions as well? It should not
be too hard to do. Furthermore once you have such a sha256-list you are
independent from a specific tool. There is no serious checking against
malware if you do not have the sha256s!!

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Re: debcheckroot v2.0 released Lewis Yarema <lewisyarema91@gmail.com> - 2019-11-22 12:10 +0100

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