[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Document verifying source file signatures in makepkg

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Oct 10 23:05:01 EDT 2011


Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
---
 doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index 0ba9ca8..2318505 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`.
 It is also possible to change the name of the downloaded file, which is helpful
 with weird URLs and for handling multiple source files with the same
 name. The syntax is: `source=('filename::url')`.
++
+Files in the source array with extensions `.sig` or `.asc` are recognized by
+makepkg as PGP signatures and will be automatically used to verify the integrity
+of the corresponding source file.
 
 *noextract (array)*::
 	An array of filenames corresponding to those from the source array. Files
-- 
1.7.7



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