[Mageia-discuss] Where is the public key located?

Alejandro López listas.apl at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 15:55:41 CEST 2012


Maybe it could be worth downloading a single compressed file containing the
ISO image, the checksums and the signatures.

Just an idea.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry for being late. I'm working on this right now and I'd like to
>> know how
>> > to get the signature and checksum files if I download the image file
>> > directly (without using a torrent). Is there any direct link to get
>> them?
>>
>> If you go through http://www.mageia.org/downloads/:
>>  - click on the image you want to download,
>>  - you're redirected to a page with the relevant info about
>> signatures, which page reloads into the image file itself (it causes
>> your browser to start downloading the file, without altering the
>> previous page you still can interact with).
>>
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> I didn't know that (I used the torrent).
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> I guess I could add a link to those as well to download them?
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> I think it would be a good solution. And the signature files also.
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>> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No, just the page contents. I will take care of the rest. Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I will prepare it tonight.  Should I provide just the contents or the
>> >> > logo,
>> >> > navigation tools, etc. also?
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards.
>> >> >
>> >> > El 25/08/2012 13:32, "Romain d'Alverny" <rdalverny at gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Shlomi Fish <
>> shlomif at shlomifish.org>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:41:21 +0200
>> >> >> > Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> I just downloaded the LiveCD to install in a laptop I just
>> bought .
>> >> >> >> The checksums are GPG signed but nowhere in the website I found
>> the
>> >> >> >> public key. Finally I found it in subkeys.pgp.net, but for an
>> >> >> >> unexperinced user this is not evident.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> I think that the public key should be easily findable. It might
>> be
>> >> >> >> worth putting a link in the download page to either the key
>> itself
>> >> >> >> or
>> >> >> >> to a text explaining how to get it. What do you think?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Sounds good. +1.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yes. Please submit a short title + text + key document and we can
>> >> >> upload it on the website right away and link it from downloads and
>> >> >> support pages.
>> >
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