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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?</H1>
    <B>P. Christeas</B> 
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    <I>Mon Sep 27 12:07:03 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Monday 27 September 2010, Giuseppe Ghib&#242; wrote:
&gt;<i> The secure
</I>&gt;<i> one would download the tarball automatically from the original
</I>&gt;<i> repositories:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> e.g.: suppose there is a package SPEC file containing:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Source: <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.xz">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.xz</A>
</I>&gt;<i> Source1: <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5.1.tar.sig">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5.1.tar.sig</A>
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> An automatic system would try to retrieve from the <A HREF="http://blabla.com/">http://blabla.com/</A> site
</I>&gt;<i> the packages
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.xz,">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.xz,</A> or if not exists
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.bz2">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.bz2</A> or
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.gz">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.gz</A> or
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5-1.tar.</A> Then would retrieve the signature
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5.1.tar.sig">http://blabla.com/openssh-5.5.1.tar.sig</A> and would check with the one from
</I>&gt;<i> the Database of signatures which has been already populated on the secure
</I>&gt;<i> system. If the signatures checking would match, then tarball would be
</I>&gt;<i> uploaded to the &quot;secure&quot; system svn and used for building instead of the
</I>&gt;<i> one from the contributor/package maintainer.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> [Of course the system would fail if the package maintainer has downloaded
</I>&gt;<i> the source tarball from the svn and not from a canonical repository, and to
</I>&gt;<i> be further secure this system would require also signing of Patches].
</I>&gt;<i> 
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... or just use git, which ensures the source code integrity.


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