From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] package.el: check tarball signature
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:58:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2nqdqui.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eh863xbz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org>
> From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:48:16 -0400
>
> Well, I still don't understand why this is advertised as such a
> difficult problem, particularly why package.el would need sign operation
> with Emacs. Am I missing something?
>
> Perhaps it might make sense to discuss with some code. Here it is.
>
> The code verifies a detached signature NAME-VERSION.tar.sig with a
> trusted keyring located under ~/.emacs.d/elpa/gnupg/. That's it.
>
> For uploading packages, we could simply use the same mechanism as
> gnupload in Gnulib.
>
> It's actually a 10-minute work at an airport lobby and tested only with
> the local package archive.
Thanks, but please add a defcustom to disable this check (e.g.,
because gnupg isn't installed, and isn't going to be).
In general, I think .sig files are there for those who want to verify
the packages, but users should not be forced to do that as a
prerequisite for downloading. (And no, the y-or-n-p question doesn't
cut it: it's a nuisance to have to answer that question every time.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 19:48 [PATCH] package.el: check tarball signature Daiki Ueno
2013-09-30 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-02 6:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Daiki Ueno
2013-10-02 10:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 21:54 ` [PATCH] " Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 22:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-02 11:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-02 7:16 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-02 10:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-02 12:22 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-02 13:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-03 3:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-02 13:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-03 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-03 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-03 7:18 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-03 14:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-03 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-04 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-04 21:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-05 0:34 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-05 5:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-05 10:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-05 15:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-05 21:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-05 9:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-05 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-05 10:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-05 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-05 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-04 2:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-10-04 16:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
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