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: [PATCH] package.el: check tarball signature Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874n92x9em.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380581798 8604 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2013 22:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:56:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 00:56:39 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 1VQmOM-0006FV-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:56:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmOL-0005Lg-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmOB-0005LL-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmO3-0003eJ-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:29283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQmO3-0003dl-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:19 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EABK/CFFFxLJX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWMws0EhQYDYhIwS2NYYMpA5JbA5IcgV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av0EABK/CFFFxLJX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWMws0EhQYDYhIwS2NYYMpA5JbA5IcgV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="29452367" Original-Received: from 69-196-178-87.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.178.87]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 30 Sep 2013 18:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E5CAF631AA; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:56:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <874n92x9em.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:54:41 -0400") 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:163752 Archived-At: DU> Well, I still don't understand why this is advertised as such a DU> difficult problem, particularly why package.el would need sign operation DU> with Emacs. Am I missing something? > Yes, I think so. Checking package signatures in general was mostly > resolved back in June 2013, I simply didn't have time to work on it > until just now. But the feature provided with the simple code of Daiki would already be very useful. I know you had similar code working back then. Why not install that already? Stefan