From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 42048@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#42048] [PATCH 0/6] Authenticated channels for everyone!
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:04:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200625210400.29033-1-ludo@gnu.org> (raw)
Hello Guix!
This patch series follows up on channel authentication support:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41767
This time the goal is to expose and document the authentication
mechanism so that third-party channel authors can use it. This
should be the last series on this theme in the foreseeable
future. :-)
The most visible effect is that channel introductions are now
part of the API and shown by ‘guix describe’. It becomes a long-term
commitment because we want to be able to pass the output of
‘guix describe -C channels’ or /run/current-system/channels.scm
to ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix time-machine’ in the future.
Contrary to what I initially proposed¹, channel introductions are
stripped to the bare minimum: a commit/fingerprint pair (as is
currently the case on master, internally). I figured it doesn’t
buy us much to have the commit/fingerprint pair signed; what
matters is that users obtain the introduction from a trusted
source, and the signature wouldn’t help with that. I also got
rid of the idea of rendering introductions are opaque base64 blobs.
In the manual I tried to distinguish instructions for users
(“what do I need to put in my channels.scm file?”) from
instructions for channel authors (“how do I allow users of my
channel to authenticate it?”).
If people have a channel that they’d like to make “authenticable”,
please do try and report back! You can even test with master,
you only need to add ‘@@’ to access (guix channels) internals
to create the introduction.
Feedback welcome!
Thanks,
Ludo’.
¹ https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22883#69
Ludovic Courtès (6):
channels: Add 'openpgp-fingerprint->bytevector'.
channels: Make channel introductions public.
channels: Remove 'signature' from <channel-introduction>.
channels: Save and interpret 'introduction' field in provenance data.
guix describe: Display channel introductions and add
'channels-sans-intro'.
services: provenance: Save channel introductions.
doc/guix.texi | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
gnu/services.scm | 26 ++++++--
guix/channels.scm | 86 +++++++++++++++++++------
guix/scripts/describe.scm | 56 +++++++++++++---
guix/scripts/system.scm | 4 +-
tests/channels.scm | 10 ++-
6 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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2.26.2
next reply other threads:[~2020-06-25 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-25 21:04 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 1/6] channels: Add 'openpgp-fingerprint->bytevector' Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 2/6] channels: Make channel introductions public Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 22:32 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-06-26 8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-27 17:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 3/6] channels: Remove 'signature' from <channel-introduction> Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-30 14:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-06-30 15:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 4/6] channels: Save and interpret 'introduction' field in provenance data Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 5/6] guix describe: Display channel introductions and add 'channels-sans-intro' Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-25 21:16 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 6/6] services: provenance: Save channel introductions Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-30 15:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-06-30 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 8:51 ` zimoun
2020-07-01 12:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 12:49 ` zimoun
2020-07-01 17:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 12:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-07-01 21:50 ` bug#42048: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 9:35 ` [bug#42048] [PATCH 0/6] Authenticated channels for everyone! zimoun
2020-07-01 12:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-01 13:09 ` zimoun
2020-07-01 15:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
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