[pacman-dev] Checking whether a package was signed

[Allan McRae]

On 22/01/12 07:06, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:48 PM, kachelaqa <kachelaqa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> It is a debug level message if one cares to look there. Obviously this
> isn't all that helpful for the general end user though.
> 
>> 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?
> Not misguided, but not something we currently track or anything. I
> don't think we'd be against tracking this in some sort of
> %VERIFICATION% field or something in the database; this could store
> something like "md5", "sha256", "pgp", "none", etc. But it isn't
> something we are likely to sit down and code; patches definitely
> welcome.
> 

I'd agree this would be something of interest to have in pacman, but not
something that will be on our high priority list to implement.

If this is something the OP wants to patch, great!  If not, it would be
useful to file a feature request so it does not get lost and someone
else might see and fix.

Allan