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Add text noting that clients should not be left in an unrecoverable state
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Diaz <[email protected]>
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### **The client application**
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Note: If a step in the following workflow does not succeed (e.g., a failure
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is reported because a new metadata file was not signed, the client should
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not be left in an unrecoverable state.
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**0**. **Load the trusted root metadata file.** We assume that a good, trusted
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copy of this file was shipped with the package manager or software updater
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using an out-of-band process. Note that the expiration of the trusted root

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