From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA security Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:57:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8738zf70ep.fsf@riseup.net> <871uejlbm1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k3rrr31g.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <874nium8h0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zk0ljaub.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wqvng299.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357664285 6643 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2013 16:58:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:58:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 17:58:23 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 1TscVF-0001q0-RX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:58:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TscV0-0006fT-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TscUx-0006fC-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TscUw-0003Xc-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:18563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TscUw-0003XX-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:57:58 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkGAG6Zu09FxIzd/2dsb2JhbABEgXuyFoEIghUBAQQBVigLCzQSFBgNiEAFugmNJoMeA4hCmnGBWIMH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="212062598" Original-Received: from 69-196-140-221.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.140.221]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 Jan 2013 11:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5087059230; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:57:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wqvng299.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:47:46 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:156149 Archived-At: > OK, so the package vector will have a new element. Releasing a package > will require releasing a new `archive-contents' with an updated > signature for that package and re-signing it with the "GNU ELPA" > maintainer key. The `archive-contents' file is re-created afresh every day via a cron-job. > Last question: do you want to provide for files that may show up during > compilation? Compilation takes place during installation and runs part of the downloaded code, so by the time we're compiling it's too late to check for security problems. Stefan