Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/21/19 4:11 AM, Stephen Gregoratto wrote: On 2019-07-21 02:42, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: How does renaming the file from SHA256.sig to SHA256 help you validate the contents using signify? I rename it in the source array: "SHA256::${_mirrorurl}/${pkgver}/amd64/SHA256.sig" I

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/21/19 9:19 AM, brent s. wrote: i can't speak for why it bothers Eli, but it bothers me because that's exactly what GPG detached sigs are already: signed hash checksums. The signify method is a signed hash checksum of a (list of) hash checksum(s). To me it feels like an unnecessary abstractio

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread brent s.
On 7/21/19 4:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 02:42:39 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> The latter problem is why I'm incredibly frustrated by projects that >> use PGP, too -- when the only thing they sign is a file containing >> checksums, and not th

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 02:42:39 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >The latter problem is why I'm incredibly frustrated by projects that >use PGP, too -- when the only thing they sign is a file containing >checksums, and not the actual source file. But it doesn't matter, since when the chec

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general
On 2019-07-21 02:42, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > How does renaming the file from SHA256.sig to SHA256 help you validate > the contents using signify? I rename it in the source array: "SHA256::${_mirrorurl}/${pkgver}/amd64/SHA256.sig" That way makepkg doesn't think it's a PGP signatu

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-20 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/21/19 2:19 AM, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general wrote: I recently adopted the openbsd-manpages package[1], and wanted to verify downloaded files using OpenBSD's signify(1) tool. For each release of OpenBSD, you download the base public key[2], the architecture-specific files and the SHA25