From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] package.el: check tarball signature Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:22:53 +0900 Message-ID: <877gdvamle.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> References: <874n92x9em.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87fvsk9m8b.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <87txh0uf8n.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380716587 20893 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2013 12:23:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:23:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 02 14:23:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSQ-0006L9-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:23:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSP-000617-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSJ-00060t-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSE-0001iu-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSE-0001ip-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([2001:e41:db5e:fb14::1]:37598 helo=debian) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRLSD-0005St-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:22:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87txh0uf8n.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:41:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163802 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > DU> For what purpose would you need signature generation? > > So the maintainer can create a signature from Emacs instead of > externally. The signer is intended to be a maintainer after review, not > a package creator. I'm fine with signing with dput for Debian and gnupload for GNU, who else of you really wants that feature. Reference? > It's something you would run on the ELPA server, not at upload time. I'd rather use other scripting language to do such a batch job. > package.el is not just an installer UI, it's a full package manager. Why the uploading part is separated into package-x.el then? > DU> I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything I can reuse in your patch. It even > DU> succeeds signature verification when GPG reports bad signatures. > > That's one of the EPG-related pieces I mentioned need fixing. But at > this point your v2 patch has done the work so there's no point in arguing. Thanks for understanding. I should have been involved in this earlier. What I'm really surprised is no progress on this for almost one year. > DU> Also, why did you choose ".gpgsig" extension rather than ".sig", > DU> which has already been used on ftp.gnu.org for a decade? > > I think the extension name is not that important, but here specifically > I wanted to indicate it's generated by GPG. .sig will obviously work > exactly the same way. It's important, if we would like to use common tools like gnupload too.