[arch-dev-public] [PATCH 0/2] dbscripts patches for package signatures

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Mar 12 22:57:39 EST 2011


On 13/03/11 13:24, Allan McRae wrote:
> I'd like comments on where the signature should be generated.  I was
> thinking at the end of makechrootpkg, but before upload could also
> work.  Note that the future makepkg implementation for automatic signing
> is probably not appropriate for use as that would require gpg and a
> keyring in the chroot.

More thinking about this...   the package signing probably can not be 
too linked to building (i.e. not in makechrootpkg) as that might be on 
an external build server (which should not have private keys on it).  So 
I guess that it should be done at the time of upload.

Allan


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