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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman commit unexpectedly drops FEATURES="sign" on error
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:27:27
Message-Id: 51C27699.8090600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman commit unexpectedly drops FEATURES="sign" on error by Zac Medico
1 On 06/19/2013 08:25 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 06/19/2013 07:59 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
3 >> I was surprised by repoman just dropping FEATURES="sign" . I'm aware
4 >> that at that time it has to commit an updated Manifest to prevent
5 >> breakages, so if gpg fails it proceeds, but is there something it could
6 >> do to check gpg sanity before committing anything?
7 >
8 > It seems the simplest way to go would be to do a test signature before
9 > commit, as suggested here:
10 >
11 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298605
12 >
13 > Is it okay to assume that everyone uses gpg-agent, so they won't have to
14 > enter the passphrase more than once?
15
16 Or, we could skip the test signature if the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable is
17 not set?
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

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