[arch-dev-public] sign packages on alderaan

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Fri Nov 11 19:04:07 EST 2011


On 11/12/2011 01:59 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 11/12/2011 01:43 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
>>> On 12 November 2011 07:35, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 31 October 2011 02:06, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
>>>>>> So far the only solution is to download the finished package, sign it
>>>>>> locally using gpg --detach-sign <file> and then uploading the signature
>>>>>> back to pkgbuild.com so commitpkg will find it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did something change WRT this workflow now? I'm getting
>>>>> signature-incorrect from commitpkg. I did sign like this 2 times
>>>>> before (opencv and cinelerra-cv), so it did work recently. gpg
>>>>> --verify outputs:
>>>>>
>>>>> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
>>>>>
>>>>> But this is normal, and the public key was not there for the previous
>>>>> 2 times. Or was gpg --verify not there in commitpkg before? Do I now
>>>>> need to import my public key on alderaan?
>>>>
>>>> Is your key in your keychain on alderaan? Probably not from what this
>>>> looks like. Easy to check- `gpg --list-keys 0xfoobar`.
>>>>
>>>> -Dan
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope. That was what I was asking - whether I need to add it. The last
>>> 2 times that I pushed signed packages from alderaan I didn't do
>>> anything gpg-related remotely.
>>>
>>> Anyway, imported the key now so all is good again.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
>>
>> don't import any key on alderaan.
> 
> Hmm?
> 
> He is trying to *verify*, meaning he needs his *public* key. This has
> nothing to do with signing or private keys. It make a heck of a lot
> more sense bandwidth-wise for him to upload the signature file to
> alderaan than upload both the package and signature from his local
> machine, so why should he not be able to do that? The `gpg --verify`
> call is there to make sure developers don't accidentally upload
> mismatched packages and corresponding signature files, which could
> easily happen when doing test builds and --nosign, etc.
> 
> -Dan


well, i understood that he signed the package on alderaan...

-- 
Ionuț

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