[arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

Bennett Piater bennett at piater.name
Wed Dec 7 10:44:11 UTC 2016


On 12/07/2016 11:17 AM, Gregory Mullen wrote:
> If the argument left is, I don't want (better checksum) because it's
> shouldn't be thought of as a security check, and I want a security check.
> 
> Why can't the requirement be PGP sig's are now required, and we drop the
> checksum completely?

Won't work because many upstreams don't provide signatures.
Maybe giving a warning ("source authenticity was not verified due to
lack of GPG signature") would work?

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