From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Packaging packages with GPG signed source archives
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:33:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oa49crz1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7d1kpv6qc.fsf@systemreboot.net> (Arun Isaac's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:07:47 +0530")
Arun Isaac (2016-08-31 08:37 +0300) wrote:
> I am trying to package a package that provides a GPG signed source
> archive. Is there any way to get Guix to verify this signature, by say,
> specifying it in the 'origin' object of the 'source' field of the
> package? What is the standard way this is done in Guix?
I think the procedure is: a packager verifies the source and that's it.
Since a package has a hash of the source, we can be sure that the source
wasn't changed since it was packaged, so if we find that a package has
a compromised source, we can blame the packager.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 5:37 Packaging packages with GPG signed source archives Arun Isaac
2016-08-31 7:33 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-08-31 7:47 ` Arun Isaac
2016-08-31 10:00 ` ng0
2016-08-31 17:22 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-31 18:37 ` Arun Isaac
2016-08-31 20:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 20:42 ` Troy Sankey
2016-09-01 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 21:53 ` ng0
2016-09-01 8:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 10:10 ` ng0
2016-09-02 12:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 12:46 ` ng0
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