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1 perry 1 VENDORS.LIST
2 !!!VENDORS.LIST
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 THE SIMPLE-KEY TYPE
6 FILES
7 SEE ALSO
8 BUGS
9 AUTHOR
10 ----
11 !!NAME
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14 vendors.list - Security key configuration for APT
15 !!DESCRIPTION
16
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18 The package vendor list contains a list of all vendors from
19 whom you wish to authenticate downloaded packages. For each
20 vendor listed, it must contain the corresponding PGP key
21 fingerprint, so that APT can perform signature verification
22 of the release file and subsequent checking of the checksums
23 of each downloaded package. To have authentication enabled,
24 you must add the vendor identification string (see below)
25 enclosed in square braces to the sources.list line for all
26 sites that mirror the repository provided by that
27 vendor.
28
29
30 The format of this file is similar to the one used by
31 apt.conf. It consists of an arbitrary number of blocks of
32 vendors, where each block starts with a string telling the
33 ''key_type'' and the ''vendor_id''.
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36 Some vendors may have multiple blocks that define different
37 security policies for their distributions. Debian for
38 instance uses a different signing methodology for stable and
39 unstable releases.
40
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42 ''key_type'' is the type of the check required.
43 Currently, there is only one type available which is
44 simple-key.
45
46
47 ''vendor_id'' is the vendor identification string. It is
48 an arbitrary string you must supply to uniquely identifify a
49 vendor that's listed in this file. Example:
50
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52 single_key
53 !!THE SIMPLE-KEY TYPE
54
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56 This type of verification is used when the vendor has a
57 single secured key that must be used to sign the Release
58 file. The following items should be present
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61 __Fingerprint__
62
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64 The PGP fingerprint for the key. The fingerprint should be
65 expressed in the standard notion with or without spaces. The
66 __--fingerprint__ option for gpg(1) will show the
67 fingerprint for the selected keys(s).
68
69
70 __Name__
71
72
73 A string containing a description of the owner of the key or
74 vendor. You may put the vendor name and it's email. The
75 string must be quoted with
76 !!FILES
77
78
79 ''/etc/apt/vendors.list''
80 !!SEE ALSO
81
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83 ''sources.list''(5)
84 !!BUGS
85
86
87 See the APT bug page
88 /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt'' or the
89 bug(1) command.
90 !!AUTHOR
91
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93 APT was written by the APT team
94 ----
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