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

[Morgan Leijström]

tisdagen den 28 augusti 2012 11.26.35 skrev  Alejandro López:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:18 AM, blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alejandro López wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Maybe it could be worth downloading a single compressed file containing
> > > the ISO image, the checksums and the signatures.

Two reasons against:

1)  it is a good idea to be able to get the checksums and signatures 
separately.

2)  assembling them in one file adds an extra step that probably some users are 
not confident with, thus repelling.

> > > 
> > > Just an idea.
> > 
> > Assuming that the iso is already compressed, "tar" rather than
> > another compression.  But just having them near each other would
> > be good.
> 
> If the ISO is already compressed, depending on the compressor the
> verification files could be added to the compressed file; or, if the
> compressor only accepts one file per compressed file, as you proposed, a
> tar including the compressed ISO and the verification files could make it.
> 
> Anyway, the ISO files are not compressed.

But i believe the content in the iso file is compressed?

> Alejandro.

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Morgan Leijström