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Re: Using Red Hat digital signing on setup.exe (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?)


I forgot to add, it also needs to be signed by a trusted root for it
to be useful to most people.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Nick Lowe <nick.lowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> "I installed 2.772 on my systems as soon as it was available and I
> don't see any such issue using my local mirror. ?Did you try another
> mirror?"
>
> Quite, but the idea of corruption was implicit in that question. A
> digital signature would rule that out. It was only a suggestion to
> ensure that that would never be a possibility.
>
> What's with the hostility? It's really bad etiquette... ;)
>
> Nick

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