[ale] Safe apt-get repositoris

[James Taylor]

For the last several releases of SuSE (8.1 to  9.1), I've been able to
go to http://packman.links2linux.org and get the rpm's I needed to
install mplayer or xine with all the "good" codecs.  I haven't had a
problem with dumping all the rpm's into a directory and installing with
command line rpm using force and nodeps.
Probable not as simple as useing apt-get if I had it installed, but I
don't have it installed.
-jt
 
 
>>>dhurst at kennesaw.edu 06/18 6:03 pm >>> 
I needed a video player badly yesterday to check a movie of an MD
simulation 
and RH9 comes with no video players.  So I went searching and used 
ayo.freshrpms.net to get apt and then mplayer.  Worked like a charm and
even 
played an encrypted DVD I had handy to check with.  Since the encryption
can't 
be distributed from within the US but the guy's site has a GPG key
available, 
then I should have checked the signature.  However, the site resolves to
an 
.ie network and may or may not be trustable.  At least my point here is
that 
the good stuff people might want may not be distributed thru the safest
of 
channels.  I guess if you could find out the background of the person
who is 
making the repository available, then that could help alot.  I could
have 
checked if they were well known in the Linux community or Open Source 
community and had a good rep. 
 
I like the Gentoo idea overall since you download the source and compile
it. 
It less likely someone would expect to get away with compromising source
code, 
especially if apt-get checks the signatures from an alternate trusted
server. 
 
Sorry for rambling but I got really excited over the ease of the mplayer

install and also how it was a fully enabled mplayer.  To do this on SuSE

manually requires entering rpm hell by downloading a bunch of rpms from
a 
particular site and installing in the right order, just like Redhat
would 
require.  I'd like to find apt-get repositories that were very complete,

trustable, and had fully enabled sources. 
 
Do Gentoo repositories have the decoding DVD library and all the codecs
for 
mplayer or xine in the sources? 
Dow 
 
 
Michael D. Hirsch wrote: 
>On Friday 18 June 2004 03:53 pm, Dow Hurst wrote: 
> 
>>I have finally had a chance to use apt-get on a RH9 workstation. 
However, 
>>my question is how can you know that the repository is a safe one with

>>binaries that are trustable?  Now, I am not asking how to secure a
computer 
>>and I don't want to rehash how the only secure computer is one with no

>>connections and so on ad infinitum....  ;-) 
>> 
>>I guess I am really asking where the best/safest repositories are for 
>>Redhat? 
> 
> 
>I can't really vouch for the safety of these, but I like 'em: 
> 
># Fedora stable repository for Red Hat 9 
>rpm http://download.fedora.us/fedora/ redhat/9/i386 stable   os updates

>rpm-src http://download.fedora.us/fedora/ redhat/9/i386 stable os
updates 
> 
># Red Hat Linux 9 
>rpm http://apt.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 freshrpms  
>rpm-src http://apt.freshrpms.net/ redhat/9/i386 freshrpms 
> 
>## kde-redhat repository(s) for Red Hat 9 (yes, *4* lines) 
>rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt fedora/9  stable 
>rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt fedora/all    stable 
>rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt kde-redhat/9  stable 
>rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt kde-redhat/all    stable 
> 
>--Michael 
> 
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