Installing RPMS via Customization Key

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>  It is difficult to comment on this without more detail on "USB
>  customization keys".  My understanding was that such customization would
>  be done once at the level of whole countries, that it would be restricted
>  to /home, and that the "key" in question was a cryptographic signing key,
>  so that customizers (at the ministry of education) could create trusted
>  images that the firmware or journal would install automatically.  Thus, I
>  am not sure what a USB customization key is.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_key

It is specifically design to allow countries (or schools) to create
customied builds *without* requiring OLPC to sign or approve their
changes.  In exchange, we require the modifications to be restricted
to /home so that we've got some hope of successfully diagnosing or
updating their builds.  I will refuse to sign any build with this
patch in it, and I don't feel that Michael has made any case for why
it is necessary.
 --scott

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