[pacman-dev] Checking whether a package was signed

[kachelaqa]

On 21/01/12 19:57, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:45 PM, kachelaqa<kachelaqa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm still trying to get to grips with package signing, so this question may
>> not make complete sense, but:
>>
>> Is there a way to check whether the signature was verified when a package
>> was installed?
> No. However, -Si shows the presence of a signature and the various
> checksums (MD5, SHA256) in the database.

Okay, thanks.

Can I ask why this is? I would have expected there to be a least a log 
message somewhere.

ISTM that many users might want to know which installed packages on 
their systems have verified signatures, and which ones not. Would they 
be misguided in seeking that information?