Channel authentication: missing keyring branch

Channel authentication: missing keyring branch

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi!

I recently added authentication to a Guix channel.
On Guix pull, guix complained that the remote has no `keyring' branch.
Indeed, creating an orphan `keyring' branch with all the public keys
stored in it worked.

This does not seems to be documented in the manual.
Besides, is there a convenient way to create the keyring branch and
populate it with the public keys of all the committers so far?

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Channel authentication: missing keyring branch

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> I recently added authentication to a Guix channel.
> On Guix pull, guix complained that the remote has no `keyring' branch.
> Indeed, creating an orphan `keyring' branch with all the public keys
> stored in it worked.
>
> This does not seems to be documented in the manual.

Oops, it’ll show up soon at:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Channels.html#Specifying-Channel-Authorizations

> Besides, is there a convenient way to create the keyring branch and
> populate it with the public keys of all the committers so far?

No, but I guess you could take the output of ‘git shortlog -s --email’
and pass it to ‘gpg --export’ & co.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Channel authentication: missing keyring branch

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> No, but I guess you could take the output of ‘git shortlog -s --email’
> and pass it to ‘gpg --export’ & co.

I think it'd be nice to give an example of these commands in the manual :)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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