Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave…

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

  • onoEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    Again, you’re confusing two different things (sources vs. packages). I’m not going to argue with you, though. Good day.

    • @itchy_lizard@feddit.itEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I’m talking about the end-user securely downloading packages from the repo, not how the package maintainer obtains the software upstream.

      How a package maintainer obtains the software from the source is dynamic and depends on the package. Ideally those releases are signed by the developer. In any case, if the package is poisoned when grabbing the source, it’s much easier for the community to detect than a targeted MITM attack on a client obtaining it from the repo.

      I can say that I do maintain a software project that’s in the repo, and we do sign it with our PGP release key. Our Debian package maintainer does verify its authenticity by checking the release’s signature. So the authenticity is checked both at the source and when downloading the package.