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    Possible security compromise with new updates???

    Anybody know why the updated Nvidia driver isn't trusted:
    # aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade
    ...
    Building tag database... Done
    The following packages will be upgraded:
     app-install-data gconf2 gconf2-common libgconf2-4 libgconf2-dev mdetect nvidia-glx-new
     nvidia-glx-new-dev update-manager-core xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-dev
    11 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 24.0MB of archives. After unpacking 5214kB will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
    WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

    Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
    You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
    this is what you want to do.

     nvidia-glx-new nvidia-glx-new-dev

    Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
    To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": no
    Abort.
    The only repo I've added to my sources.list that didn't come with a GPG key is the VirtualBox repo, and I only added that because I couldn't get USB support working in the *buntu repo's version.
    Asus G1S-X3:
    Intel Core2 Duo T7500, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT, 4Gb PC2-5300, 320Gb Hitachi 7k320, Linux ( )

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    Re: Possible security compromise with new updates

    Doesn't seem to be a problem anymore (or with the repos I'm using)...possibly someone forgot to sign the packages?

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