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  • geospatial-data-lake

    Discontinued Central storage, management and access for important geospatial datasets

    • One option is to trust on first use, checksum the installation script and at least casually verify the diff each time the checksum changes[1].

    Pros:

    - Protects against simple hijacking.

    - Reproducible as long as the installer doesn't also call out to a moving target, such as example.com/releases/latest.

    Cons:

    - Build breaks as soon as the installer is bumped. If it's bumped often (or just before an important release) this can cause pain.

    - TOFU may not be acceptable, but of course you could review the code thoroughly before even the first use.

    [1] https://github.com/linz/geostore/blob/b3cd162605109da8a3a688...

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