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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 03:25:15
Message-Id: 51C27615.2020600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] repoman commit unexpectedly drops FEATURES="sign" on error by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 06/19/2013 07:59 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > I was surprised by repoman just dropping FEATURES="sign" . I'm aware
3 > that at that time it has to commit an updated Manifest to prevent
4 > breakages, so if gpg fails it proceeds, but is there something it could
5 > do to check gpg sanity before committing anything?
6
7 It seems the simplest way to go would be to do a test signature before
8 commit, as suggested here:
9
10 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298605
11
12 Is it okay to assume that everyone uses gpg-agent, so they won't have to
13 enter the passphrase more than once?
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac

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