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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources</H1>
<B>Florian Hubold</B>
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<I>Tue Jan 10 22:59:14 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Am 10.01.2012 20:09, schrieb Dan Fandrich:
><i> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:00:35PM +0100, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
</I>>><i> I think this is a good initiative.
</I>>><i> Does other distros do this?
</I>>><i> Perhaps we can ask other distros to start doing the same, and thus give upstream developers a reason for signing.
</I>><i> I believe at least some source-based distros (e.g. Gentoo) do this since
</I>><i> there's no other means to ensure that the end user isn't downloading and
</I>><i> compiling compromised source.
</I>Well, even that didn't protect them from distributing backdoored unrealircd:
<A HREF="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323691#c2">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323691#c2</A>
But in general it seems a good way to go. Always wondered why some SPECs
had .asc signatures defined in Source tags, but nothing used them.
><i> It's not really necessary with RPM as
</I>><i> the spec file creator can verify the source manually (using GPG or other
</I>><i> means) before packaging it into an SRPM signed by his key. But, chances
</I>><i> are that manual step is not happening now so making it automatic isn't
</I>><i> a bad idea.
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</I>>>>><i> Dan
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