Am 22.03.2012 18:05, schrieb Dennis 'Gyroplast' Herbrich: > I haven't found a way to reliably download the official package signature > files along with the packages themselves through creative use of pacman. I > do not REALLY want to fetch the .sig files in another step from the mirror > I am using, as that'd require me to construct package FILE names myself > instead of just throwing pacman a "core/filesystem=2012.2-2" and let > pacman figure out my architecture and download location. I DO want to have > package signing available for my local copy, though. > > Is there a way to grab the .sig files along with the package files with > pacman, and place them somewhere neat as the CacheDir, for instance?
pacman -S uses the signature files from the database file, it does not download them as single files. They are contained in the $pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel/desc file inside the .db tarball.
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
