From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Dec 31 9:44:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 09:44:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8905337B400; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:44:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Cmci-00008a-00; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:50:24 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A4F71E0.BDE17A50@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:50:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Will Andrews , "Michael C . Wu" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Package signing tools References: <3A4EE344.E9811F06@softweyr.com> <3A4ED1C0.14061CE5@softweyr.com> <20001231003920.A24519@peorth.iteration.net> <20001231014344.T305@argon.firepipe.net> <3A4EDE33.84C7072@softweyr.com> <20001231021610.V305@argon.firepipe.net> <200012310743.eBV7hNs09212@billy-club.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3A4EE344.E9811F06@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: > : You obviously didn't read the code. The signature is applied to the binary > : package, in the gzip header. There isn't any way to attach it to a package > : on the system, or to verify it if there were, since the data that is signed > : is the gzipped data stream. > > And as such it is for more than just packages.... We don't have > pkg_gzip now do we? No, I think it uses libzip. Yes, this could be used to sign any gzipped file. Hmmm... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message