[arch-general] Pacman Database Signatures

2020-02-02 Thread Christopher W. via arch-general
Hi. The wiki states that database signatures for pacman are currently a work in progress. It's been that way for a long time, so I assume there is no "progress" happening. What is currently in the way of this much-needed security feature to be fully implemented? Right now, pacman is taking untrust

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Database Signatures

2020-02-05 Thread Christopher W. via arch-general
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:55 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch- > As Levente said, this is supported by pacman, but not by Arch Linux -- > and the reason for the latter is that it is complicated to come up with > a signing scheme which everyone is happy with. It needs to support > remote server sign

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Database Signatures

2020-03-25 Thread Christopher W. via arch-general
On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 3:55 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 2/2/20 4:59 PM, Christopher W. via arch-general wrote: > > > Hi. The wiki states that database signatures for pacman are currently > > a work in progress. It's been that way for a long time