From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Heads-up: hard reset of the 'staging' branch
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu5jcajh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftbi4nbg.fsf@gnu.org> (Marius Bakke's message of "Fri, 29 May 2020 20:18:27 +0200")
Hey,
Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> To be clear, it wouldn’t just “leave a gap”: all future commits would
>> also be rejected. The authentication code ensures that each commit is
>> signed by one of the keys authorized in its parent commit(s). (See the
>> latest discussions at <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22883>.)
>
> Indeed, sorry for being unclear. The gap I was referring to was based
> on a hypothetical situation where we worked around this issue in
> git-authenticate.scm, similar to %commits-with-known-bad-signature.
As it turns out, ‘%commits-with-known-bad-signature’ is unused. :-)
I’m actually reluctant to supporting it now because I don’t see how it
could be implemented without also offering a trivial way to escape
verification.
>> This is a good opportunity to remind all fellow committers of the latest
>> changes in that area, which are summarized here:
>>
>> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Commit-Access.html
>>
>> Please take a look.
>>
>> SCARY WARNING:
>>
>> When ‘guix pull’ runs that authentication code, which I hope will be
>> the case in a few weeks, any such mistakes means that users will not
>> be able to pull at all, so we all have to be very cautious. If we do
>> make a mistake, we’ll have to reset the branch to a known-good state,
>> like you did.
>
> I am really looking forward to strong authentication in 'guix pull'.
> Sounds like a good excuse to make a new release! :-)
Yup!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 19:24 Heads-up: hard reset of the 'staging' branch Marius Bakke
2020-05-25 19:50 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-26 21:57 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-29 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-29 18:18 ` Marius Bakke
2020-06-04 11:53 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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