There are at least two useful tricks beyond basic RPM verification that can be useful in some situations.
The first is that RPM's verification doesn't have to use the systemdatabase; instead it can get the MD5 checksums from a .rpm itself.This is done with ' rpm -V -p '. Naturally the .rpm had betterbe the same version that's installed, and of course prelinking isstill an issue if you don't trust the systemthat much.
Here is something that I shouldn't have to say to all sorts of emailproviders but apparently need to:
If someone says that you have spammed them, your first reaction shouldnot be to proclaim that you are a legitimate business (and that youdon't spam and that you have strong policies and so on); your firstreaction should be to profusely apologize and attempt to open a dialogso that you can fix the situation.
There are a number of reasons for this, assuming that you are a
Because I have recently been confusing myself with this, and because itis not clearly documented in the Python standard library or the tutorial(at least not that I could spot):
.decode() decodes a plain string (ie, bytes in some encoding) toa Unicode string.
.encode() encodes a Unicode string into a plain string.
Feeding a plain string to the unicode() constructor is the same ascalling .decode() on the string.