From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OBS substitutes
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:21:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1dh4ob1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877df9y6om.fsf@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:08:33 +0100")
Hello Chris,
> On Guix Systems, if the substitute keys are left as the default, for
> recent revisions of Guix, the bordeaux.guix.gnu.org signing key will be
> included in the ACL by default. With Guix on foreign distributions, it
> needs adding manually.
>
> I think there's some room for improvement in the UI/UX here, in terms of
> telling users that there are substitutes available, if they trust a
> specific key (all the relevant information is in the narinfo).
I totally agree here, as I also faced this issue several times. When
fetching a narinfo which is signed with a key that's not in the ACL, we
should probably issue a warning.
Mathieu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 21:35 OBS substitutes zimoun
2021-09-21 8:51 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-09-21 9:25 ` zimoun
2021-09-21 21:08 ` Christopher Baines
2021-09-21 21:21 ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
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