[pacman-dev] Signature within repo databases?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 22 01:54:22 UTC 2015


I searched the archives, but I can not find why we stored the package
PGP signatures base64'd in the repo database rather than downloading
them as needed.  Signatures are responsible for ~55% of the Arch repo
database size, so I am guessing there must have been a tradeoff.

Can anyone provide insight to this?   It was 2008...

Thanks,
Allan


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